Word monkey

Fowler, Christopher2024

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Christopher Fowler's first memoir, 'Paperboy', told the story of a bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals - a theme that was gradually crowded out by the exploits of his improbable family. 5 years later he published a second volume, 'Film Freak', about his attempts to forge a career in the British film industry in the 70s just as it was going down the pan. His accounts of dodgy producers, basement dives and dreadful B movies were elbowed to one side - this time by the exploits of his improbable friends. 'Word Monkey' is about writing and what being a writer has meant to him. Woven into the narrative is an altogether darker, more intensely personal thread: that of someone having to confront their own mortality.