{"product_id":"toy-fights","title":"Toy Fights","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘A classic of its kind.’ \u003cb\u003eWilliam Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A work of dazzling craft.’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A memoir in a million.’\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** Chosen as a  \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year ** \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he wasn’t busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of toy fights,\u003cbr\u003eworking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A book that swan-dives into the filthy waters of growing up and resurfaces clear-eyed, bearing pearls.’\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Financial Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Paterson is arguably Scotland’s finest writer at work today, his sense of the absurd is acutely honed, his wisdom hard-won.’\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The National\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Wonderful, aggressively wise and always – especially at its most serious – devastatingly funny.’ \u003cb\u003eGeoff Dyer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57401839387006,"sku":"NW9780571240289","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571240289.jpg?v=1778612015","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/toy-fights","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}