BRITPOP |  | Author: Matthew John Gunn
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2409746
Media: Paperback
Pages: 364
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 1425965431
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781425965433
ASIN: 1425965431
Publication Date: November 3, 2006
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Product Description
A group of young friends embark on a journey of University life in the Windy City of Southampton '94 to '97. The catalyst of the new music scene 'BritPop' surrounds them in a culture that knows no bounds as the broken promises of youth arrive. The nation holds its breath for a revolution in nightclub nights, secret desires and fears, rolled up into the city lights, music and drug culture, where the biggest generational queue of the decade waits. Excess in one hand and depression in the next, having achieved too much too soon, each day begins to merge into one. Soon time becomes frozen in thoughts of redemption and moving on, in a city that begins to haunt their steps and memories as a clock ticks to the end of an adventure they cannot change. It begins to dawn on them - what happens when you can't party anymore? The world was other people's problems, all that concerned them was what time to get up, go out and spend. A different promise to a new 'Cool Britannia' of music and ultimately of themselves, what 'if' had finally arrived... A goodbye to youth, to music, to free money, responsibility awaits, the longest goodbye...
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Britpop - A good, hard kick in the teeth from social reality! January 15, 2007
Ms. K. J. Martin
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A fascinating look at University life back in the mid 90's. Realistic, believable, gritty and funny, Britpop takes you through Uni life from the eyes and hearts of numerous, intriguing characters!
M.J.Gunn's distinct style of writing illuminates these gloomy, self absorbed worthless delinquents into edgy, exciting and unpredictable marvels. Gunn adopts the writing styles of the student characters and manages to convince you that each characters chapters are written by them and not him.
Fascinating characters and funny sub stories keep the book alive from start to finish. Hope to see more of this authors work soon.
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