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My Fault by Billy Childish (2005)
Requirements: MOBI / ePUB reader, 1.4 Mb
Overview: Born Steven John Hamper in 1959, Billy Childish is a cult figure in America, Europe and Japan. Billy Childish is by far the most prolific painter, poet, and song-writer of his generation. In a twenty year period he has published over 40 collections of his poetry, recorded over 100 full-length independent LP’s and produced over 2000 paintings.
Billy Childish left Secondary education at 16, an undiagnosed dyslexic. Refused an interview at the local art school he entered the Naval Dockyard at Chatham as an apprentice stonemason. During the following six months (the artist’s only prolonged period of employment), he produced some six hundred drawings in ‘the tea huts of hell'. On the basis of this work he was accepted into St Martin’s School of Art to study painting. However, his acceptance was short-lived and before completing the course he was expelled for his outspokenness and unorthodox working methods. With no qualifications and no job prospects Childish then spent some 12 years ‘painting on the dole’, developing his own highly personal writing style and producing his art independently.
Genre: Autobiographical Fiction, coming-of-age
Born into the emerging middle classes of the 1950s, Billy Childish takes us on a nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse. Stumbling onward into adolescence he lays bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men, This striking first novel, or 'creative confession', is at turns hilarious and harrowing. Laced with lines of unforgettable poetry it is that rare and wonderful thing - a book which had to be written.
This is a semi-autobiographical account of Billy's childhood, growing up in 1960s and 70s Chatham. His father - alcoholic, authoritarian and ever-present though often absent - refers to him as 'Smell' and finds fault with all he does. He is picked on at school by both pupils and teachers. Aged 9, he is abused by a family friend on holiday. He leaves school and goes onto work in the Dockyard before gaining entry to St Martin's through sheer ability, where he meets Tracey Emin ('Dolli') and, subsequently gets kicked out because of his anti-establishment views. Under the brash, dysfunctional, rebellious exterior is a polite, gentle, sensitive kid who is ultimately saved by his imagination and creativity.
Download Instructions:
http://www86.zippyshare.com/v/XSUANP78/file.html
Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/!dubqVUQ0PIkn/my-fault-billy-childish-rar
Another scanned hard-to-find book converted to ebook using ABBYYFineReader and Sigil
Requirements: MOBI / ePUB reader, 1.4 Mb
Overview: Born Steven John Hamper in 1959, Billy Childish is a cult figure in America, Europe and Japan. Billy Childish is by far the most prolific painter, poet, and song-writer of his generation. In a twenty year period he has published over 40 collections of his poetry, recorded over 100 full-length independent LP’s and produced over 2000 paintings.
Billy Childish left Secondary education at 16, an undiagnosed dyslexic. Refused an interview at the local art school he entered the Naval Dockyard at Chatham as an apprentice stonemason. During the following six months (the artist’s only prolonged period of employment), he produced some six hundred drawings in ‘the tea huts of hell'. On the basis of this work he was accepted into St Martin’s School of Art to study painting. However, his acceptance was short-lived and before completing the course he was expelled for his outspokenness and unorthodox working methods. With no qualifications and no job prospects Childish then spent some 12 years ‘painting on the dole’, developing his own highly personal writing style and producing his art independently.
Genre: Autobiographical Fiction, coming-of-age
Born into the emerging middle classes of the 1950s, Billy Childish takes us on a nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse. Stumbling onward into adolescence he lays bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men, This striking first novel, or 'creative confession', is at turns hilarious and harrowing. Laced with lines of unforgettable poetry it is that rare and wonderful thing - a book which had to be written.
This is a semi-autobiographical account of Billy's childhood, growing up in 1960s and 70s Chatham. His father - alcoholic, authoritarian and ever-present though often absent - refers to him as 'Smell' and finds fault with all he does. He is picked on at school by both pupils and teachers. Aged 9, he is abused by a family friend on holiday. He leaves school and goes onto work in the Dockyard before gaining entry to St Martin's through sheer ability, where he meets Tracey Emin ('Dolli') and, subsequently gets kicked out because of his anti-establishment views. Under the brash, dysfunctional, rebellious exterior is a polite, gentle, sensitive kid who is ultimately saved by his imagination and creativity.
Download Instructions:
http://www86.zippyshare.com/v/XSUANP78/file.html
Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/!dubqVUQ0PIkn/my-fault-billy-childish-rar
Another scanned hard-to-find book converted to ebook using ABBYYFineReader and Sigil
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