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Stars are Stars

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At the age of fifteen Danny May has just one dream- to be an artist, and to go - like John Lennon before him - to Liverpool Art School. Living in Toxteth with his mother and five sisters, Danny meets Nicole and falls in love. She's clever, politically aware, and astonished at how unworldly an inner-city kid can be.In the autumn of 1980 Danny receives the devastating news that the Art School's funding has been withdrawn by the new Tory government. He slides into apathy, robbing, drug dependency. Nicole stands by him, trying desperately to break his depression, but when he burgles her parents' house she abandons him and leaves for Paris. Their love affair, played out to a soundtrack of Bowie and Joy Division, is grand, romantic and doomed.Then, in July 1981, he finds himself sucked into the longest, most exhilarating and frightening day of his life. Set on fire by rioters, Toxteth is ablaze. Danny, transfixed, starts to paint versions of the same picture, over and over again. His subject is Toxteth in flames.He writes to Nicole, a cry for help. She hears him and tracks him down.

About the Author :
Kevin Sampson is the author of seven novels - Awaydays, Powder, Leisure, Outlaws, Clubland, Freshers and Stars are Stars - and a work of non-fiction, Extra Time. He lives and works in Liverpool.

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"Buzzing with post-punk energy and righteous indignation. The result is a novel that has you feeling sad and angry about Thatcher's Britain all over again, and with the simplistic intensity of adolescence" "It's when Sampson is detailing the violence of the Toxteth riots that his descriptive powers are really exercised ... Stars are Stars has a solid emotional core - it's about the limits of idealism, and the transformative potential of young love" "More than a love story, this is a love letter to the post-punk scene in Liverpool... Sampson convincingly captures that mindset, peculiar to youth and perhaps to that time, when politics, music and desire could mix and combust to such powerful effect" "Sampson is a fine storyteller... Nasty stuff, brilliantly told"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780099470250
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage
  • Height: 199 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Weight: 187 gr
  • ISBN-10: 009947025X
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jun 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 130 mm


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