Product Description

Always hated liner notes - always hated any kinda writing about rock'n'roll - I mean, why don't ya just shut up & listen to the music? - but here I am now, trying to catch in words what I think & feel about my good friend Clap & about these fine & dandy tales he's spun - tales of life on & off the road with a band called okay - a band in which I am lead singer - & in which Clap is drummer - not the world's greatest, technically, even he'd admit to that - but solid & deep & swingin' & truthful - & I suppose that's what I want to say this here book is - truth-full - if I'd written it, it would be all about high times & honeys - & Clap has gotten down that wild stuff - but he's also told the cold truth about the things you lose along the way - & I think he's done it just about as well as it coulda been done - & believe me, I should know: I wasn't there for most of it. Stay cool, Syph x.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #229372 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
Praise for Toby Litt: 'One of the most inventive and original writers around' Sunday Mirror 'Toby Litt is awfully good -- he gives something new every time he writes' Muriel Spark

The Scotsman
"Toby Litt, playful and perverse writer that he is, uses the music as a device for musing on broader themes of masculinity, spirituality, the ageing process, and, OK, sex and drugs and the Zen implications of a solid 4-4 beat. . . bitterly funny . . . the cumulative effect of Clap's confessionals is a poignant perspective on the corruption of success"

The Guardian
"This is no mere rockumentry; Litt, who is nothing if not serious about writing, is giving us a weighty, ambitious take on the male mid-life crisis...this is a serious, nostalgic novel about growing old and growing up"