Faber & Faber

The Giro Playboy: Michael Smith

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Synopsis:

The Giro Playboy recounts the (mis)adventures of a delusional drifter and his wanderings from the north-east of London (where the streets are paved with gold) and on to Brighton and the badlands of Essex. Along the way he falls in love, drinks a lot of beer, eats too many sweets, ponders the meaning of life on the dole and gets admitted to hospital for a painful condition - all the time measuring his life in cigarettes.

An utterly charming miniature picaresque and a portrait of a life blissfully unmoored, The Giro Playboy is a twenty-first century beat classic in the making.

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Categorised as:

Fiction

Sub-categories:

General Fiction

Places:

London; North Of England

Genres & Themes:

Drugs; Outsiders; Picaresque