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Product details
- ISBN 9780141021249
- Weight: 246g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph
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A poet is a rock star without the sex'n'drugs, or the rock'n'roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. Crammed with stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls (not all the author's own), Yorkshire life and death, Gig is about the dream and reality of what you are, and what you might have been.
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'One of our most entertaining authors' Independent
'Very, very funny' GQ
'Witty, terrific, stupendously funny' Daily Telegraph
Simon Armitage, Sunday Times bestseller, April 2024
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963, and continues to live near Huddersfield. He is one of the leading writers of his generation. He has won the Sunday Times author of the year, the Forward Prize, a Lannan Award, and an Ivor Novello Award for his song lyrics in the Channel 4 film, Feltham Sings
