Busker, The

Liam Murray Bell

ISBN 10: 1908434376 / ISBN 13: 9781908434371

Verlag: Myriad Editions 2014-05-01, 2014

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-GRD-9781908434371

Inhaltsangabe:

Plucked from obscurity in Glasgow, Rab Dillon is about to become the next great protest singer. Seduced by promises of stardom, carrying only the guitar given to him by the girl who broke his heart, he travels down to London. There he records the debut album that will speak to the dispossessed, the disenfranchised and disheartened.

One year later, he is sleeping rough on the streets of Brighton.

A modern-day ballad set across three cities and two years, The Busker is a richly comic exposé of the music industry, the Occupy movement, homelessness, squatting ― and failing to live up to the name you (almost) share with your hero. It is also the story of what survives when the flimsy dreams of fame fall apart.

Liam Murray Bell is also the author of So It Is (Myriad, 2012).

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Liam Murray Bell was born in Orkney and brought up in Glasgow. After studying for a degree in English Literature with Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast, he returned to Scotland to undertake his Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, before moving to the South of England to complete a PhD at the University of Surrey. Murray Bell now lives in Scotland with his wife and daughter and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Busker, The
Verlag: Myriad Editions 2014-05-01
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: New