{"product_id":"signed-edition-toy-fights-a-boyhood-don-paterson","title":"SIGNED EDITION: Toy Fights: A Boyhood – Don Paterson","description":"'A classic of its kind.' William Boyd\r\\n'Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.' \u003cem\u003eScotsman\u003c\/em\u003e\r\\n'A work of dazzling craft.' \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\r\\n'A memoir in a million.'\u003cem\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\r\\n\r\\n** Chosen as a \u003cem\u003eTime \u003c\/em\u003eBook of the Year **\r\\n\r\\nDon Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate.\r\\nWhen he wasn't busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of toy fights,\r\\nworking with his country-and-western singer dad, obsessing over God, origami, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, playing guitar and descending into madness.\r\\nWhile he didn't manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life - before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London - did, for better or worse, shape who he would become.\r\\n\r\\n'A book that swan-dives into the filthy waters of growing up and resurfaces clear-eyed, bearing pearls.'\u003cem\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\r\\n\r\\n'Paterson is arguably Scotland's finest writer at work today, his sense of the absurd is acutely honed, his wisdom hard-won.'\u003cem\u003e The National\u003c\/em\u003e\r\\n\r\\n'Wonderful, aggressively wise and always - especially at its most serious - devastatingly funny.' Geoff Dyer","brand":"Princeps Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50406177276243,"sku":null,"price":1.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/1346\/5683\/files\/toy-fights.webp?v=1739653852","url":"https:\/\/www.jaggedlittlequill.com\/products\/signed-edition-toy-fights-a-boyhood-don-paterson","provider":"Jagged Little Quill","version":"1.0","type":"link"}