Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Harland Miller has been a T-shirt printer, a model, and an escort. He continues his work as an artist and is working on a new exhibition for The White Cube. He was born in Yorkshire in 1964 and now lives in London.
The achingly funny and moving story of the dizzying highs and lows of growing up in the North of England at the height of New Wave.
1980: Billy ‘Kid’ Glover is seeing things in triplicate and the doc prescribes a rest cure. When he returns to Yorkshire, ‘Vienna’ is on the radio and, although subtle, there have been some changes. The seventies have given way to a new decade and the young folk of the old town are waiting in the cold for the opportunities that might come with it. The change is slow and not always welcome. The pits are being closed and the police can’t catch the Ripper. But Ziggy Hero, David Bowie impersonator and ghost rider is planning a gig. He will prove that some things really are worth waiting for.
Sex, drugs and ropey pubs: Harland Miller’s unconventional rites-of-passage novel.
The achingly funny and moving story of the dizzying highs and lows of growing up in the North of England at the height of New Wave.
1980: The pits are closed and the Yorkshire Ripper has emptied the streets. Kid Glover, recently returned from a recuperative break, finds the young folk of the old town waiting for the opportunities the new decade might offer. Knocking around with Si, Ovo and Deeb, tragi-comic malcontents the lot of them, he falls under the spell of Ziggy Hero, a David Bowie impersonator planning a gig. He will prove that some things really are worth waiting for.
• Further PR campaign following on from the blanket coverage with trade paperback.
• Full back cover colour advertising with Big Issue North and Time Out London
• Saturation flyposting campaign in Manchester and Leeds
• Film rights have been bought by the team behind Trainspotting and Shallow Grave with Jarvis Cocker to direct
• A key fiction title for Summer Reading
• Harland Miller will be writer in residence for the ICA through 2001/02
• ‘A wonderful, touching funny book which wraps up the horror of a stagnant future in a weirdly attractive coat of surreal humour, then sends it down the pub to get its face smashed in.’ Big Issue
• ‘Deliciously evocative … genuine, heartfelt emotion.’ The Times
• ‘The best Pulp album never written.’ Face
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Harland Miller has been a T-shirt printer, a model, and an escort. He continues his work as an artist and is working on a new exhibition for The White Cube. He was born in Yorkshire in 1964 and now lives in London.