ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS by Robert Twigger ( 9780753808580 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS

By:

Robert Twigger

Format:

Paperback

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£9.99

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£7.29

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£2.70

ISBN 10:

0753808587

ISBN 13:

9780753808580

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Publisher:

ORION PUBLISHING CO

Pub. date:

23 October, 1999

Pages:

320

Description:

A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.

Synopsis:

A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation and sweaty squalor of a cramped apartment in Fuji Heights, Twigger sets out to cleanse his body and his mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts, and the brutally demanding course of budo training taken by the Tokyo Riot Police, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained dogis and fractured collarbones.In Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the modern - the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the twenty-first century - to provide an entertaining and captivating glimpse of contemporary Japan.

Publication:

Imprint:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Prizes:

Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 1998 Winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year 1998

Returns:

Returnable

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