Wood, Talc And Mr. J eBook

1978. The North.Phillip sees life in a simplistic if passionate way: up or down, us and them, black, white and nothing in-between. When not doing his thing in Wigans Casino Club voted The Greatest Disco in the World by Time Magazine Phillip hates the world. Or at least he thinks he does. He longs for the weekend, or a greater, permanent escape from the daily grind of factory life in an industrial town.Coming full circle by way of loss and more loss, you would hope lessons are learnedThe book progresses through myriad dream sequences, interwoven song-themes, a fathers philosophical ramblings, ever blackening wit, leitmotif or seemingly recurring scenes; is someone laughing at our hero? And Phillips own, lyrical, strut-like, black or white manner.Dancehall adventures via train rides to Heaven, scooter cruising almost coast to coast. Beneath the pier encounters with the opposite sex, et al set against the birth of Scargill and Thatcher feuding