Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty
By (Author) Harland Miller
HarperCollins Publishers
Fourth Estate Ltd
3rd September 2001
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
256
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 14mm
190g
The achingly funny and moving story of the dizzying highs and lows of growing up in the North of England at the height of New Wave.
1980: Billy Kid Glover is seeing things in triplicate and the doc prescribes a rest cure. When he returns to Yorkshire, Vienna is on the radio and, although subtle, there have been some changes. The seventies have given way to a new decade and the young folk of the old town are waiting in the cold for the opportunities that might come with it. The change is slow and not always welcome. The pits are being closed and the police cant catch the Ripper. But Ziggy Hero, David Bowie impersonator and ghost rider is planning a gig. He will prove that some things really are worth waiting for.
Sex, drugs and ropey pubs: Harland Millers unconventional rites-of-passage novel.
Harland Miller has been a T-shirt printer for bands such as The Fall, Bauhaus and the Jam, a model and and an escort and continues his work as an artist. He was born in Yorkshire in 1964 and now lives in London.