Tracing life from a childhood in an ItalianEnglish family on Tyneside to becoming a Welshspeaking freelance writer in Cardiff, Eisteddfodwinning author Tony Bianchi leads the reader through a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes. Each section is a freestanding short story but read together they form a ludic, untrustworthy autobiography where the rug of humdrum normality is constantly pulled from under our feet. Lured into trusting belief by the narrators direct, confiding tone, by the sometimes overwhelming weight of circumstantial geographical and historical detail, and by the photos and documents that seem to guarantee authenticity, again and again the reader is suddenly left rudderless, unsure of the boundaries between truth and fiction. Did Bianchi ever play football in a Cardiff park with notorious Serbian warlord Arkan? Is the floor of his local pub a concrete realisation of an M.C. Escher painting?In England, Wales, and beyond, Bianchi introduces a series of extraordinary characters, from the devout, indulgencecollecting, organplaying grandfather, to the plumber and Cumbrian nationalist Caedmon, or the pianoplaying pharmacist with carpal tunnel syndrome. And whether at the centre of the narrative or reporting from the sidelines, there, constantly leading us on from one potentially disastrous situation to another, is the author as antihero, always earnestly selfdeprecating, always reinventing himself, always challenging our assumptions about identity, time and...

Binding: Paperback;182 pages; Publisher: Cinnamon Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 340 g; Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 14

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