{"product_id":"ten-storey-love-song-9781399602457","title":"Ten Storey Love Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eTen Storey Love Song is a novel that follows the lives of three characters: Bobby the Artist, Johnnie the Thief, and Alan Blunt. It is a vivid portrayal of their struggles with addiction, self-discovery, and violence. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 16 March 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Orion Publishing Co\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning one torrential paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song  follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and decline into horrific drug psychosis, Johnnie's attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed, and Alan Blunt, a forty-year-old container driver who spends a worrying amount of time patrolling the grounds of the local primary school. Bobby, the so-called love-child of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, holed up in a Middlesbrough tower block, works on his canvases under the influence of pills-on-toast, dirt-cheap cider, and dream pop. When Bent Lewis, an art dealer from London appears, Bobby and his friends are sent on a breakneck adventure of self-discovery, hedonism, and violence, their frayed lives and assorted addictions - sex, money, fame, pick-n-mix, and, above all, love - bleeding together in one glorious, ferocious slab of technicolour concrete prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and decline into horrific drug psychosis, Johnnie's attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed, and Alan Blunt, a forty-year-old container driver who spends a worrying amount of time patrolling the grounds of the local primary school.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBobby, the so-called love-child of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, holed up in a Middlesbrough tower block, works on his canvases under the influence of pills-on-toast, dirt-cheap cider, and dream pop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Bent Lewis, an art dealer from London appears, Bobby and his friends are sent on a breakneck adventure of self-discovery, hedonism, and violence, their frayed lives and assorted addictions - sex, money, fame, pick-n-mix, and, above all, love - bleeding together in one glorious, ferocious slab of technicolour concrete prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 246g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 198 x 129 x 27 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781399602457\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Milward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44115535364346,"sku":"9781399602457","price":7.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1679462420067_book_9301e18e-c5c3-4bb0-808f-c8aefca6ec55.jpg?v=1679675905","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/ten-storey-love-song-9781399602457","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}