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Wednesday 5 January 2011

The Giro Playboy by Michael Smith

This week we read an excerpt from 'The Giro Playboy' by Michael Smith.
Published in 2006.

The Giro Playboy recounts the (mis)adventures of a delusional drifter and his wanderings from the north-east of London (where the streets are paved with gold) and on to Brighton and the badlands of Essex. Along the way he falls in love, drinks a lot of beer, eats too many sweets, ponders the meaning of life on the dole and gets admitted to hospital for a painful condition - all the time measuring his life in cigarettes.

An utterly charming miniature picaresque and a portrait of a life blissfully unmoored, The Giro Playboy is a twenty-first century beat classic in the making.

Selected by Elizabeth Hayden.

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