Book DetailsCountry: UK
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: Viking Books
Publication Date: 2001
Fictional Artist: Gandalf's Pikestaff
Genre: Punk, Prog
Country: UK
Real World Analogue: The novel is named after the song by Hatfield and the North. Gandalf's Pikestaff, it is assumed is inpired by the same.
Jacket Blurb:
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical with socialist leanings; and a quiet dreamer obsessed with poetry, God, and the prettiest girl in school. As the world appears to self-destruct around them, they hold together to navigate the choppy waters of a decidedly ambiguous decade."
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