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Title: GIG
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A ROCK-STAR FANTASIST
By: Simon Armitage
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0141021241
ISBN 13: 9780141021249
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 May, 2009
Pages: 336
Description: Explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. This title includes stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls, and Yorkshire life and death. It is about the dream and reality of what you are, and what you might have been.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 2 x 8 pp inset
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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