A Hero for High Times by Ian Marchant
Deep in a wood in a valley in the Marches of Wales, by an abandoned railway line, there lives an old man called Bob Rowberry. His home is an ancient school bus whose engine has died and whose wheels have fallen off. This is the story of how he ended up in this broken-down bus, in this forgotten part of the world.
Extraordinary.. What a seditious, crackpot, transcendental riot this book is. My book of the year, and it’s only February. -- Roger Lewis * The Times *
Listen carefully, children, to a checklist of the British underground scene... This amiable and engaging blog-doc is an Odyssey for elective outsiders. Here are real monsters and sirens of Soho and Presteigne, legions of the talkative dead, and a great rattletrap camper van voyage carrying us back to the point of origin… A Hero for High Times is Ian Marchant’s monumental defence of the alternative way. -- Iain Sinclair * Guardian *
Infectious... [A] hugely engaging compendium of high ideals, low morals and apeshit behaviour. -- John Walsh * Sunday Times *
A defiant, funny lament for lost ideals. * The Sun *
An up close and personal story of the counterculture... as well as a rumination on the nature of friendship. * Choice Magazine **Pick of the Paperbacks** *
A lament for lost hope and a lost radicalism amid the conservatism of the contemporary world. -- Teddy Jamieson * Glasgow Herald *
Listen carefully, children, to a checklist of the British underground scene... This amiable and engaging blog-doc is an Odyssey for elective outsiders. Here are real monsters and sirens of Soho and Presteigne, legions of the talkative dead, and a great rattletrap camper van voyage carrying us back to the point of origin… A Hero for High Times is Ian Marchant’s monumental defence of the alternative way. -- Iain Sinclair * Guardian *
Infectious... [A] hugely engaging compendium of high ideals, low morals and apeshit behaviour. -- John Walsh * Sunday Times *
A defiant, funny lament for lost ideals. * The Sun *
An up close and personal story of the counterculture... as well as a rumination on the nature of friendship. * Choice Magazine **Pick of the Paperbacks** *
A lament for lost hope and a lost radicalism amid the conservatism of the contemporary world. -- Teddy Jamieson * Glasgow Herald *
Ian Marchant is originally from Newhaven in East Sussex, and now lives with his family in the no longer extant Welsh county of Radnorshire. He has published seven books, including the travel/memoirs Parallel Lines, The Longest Crawl and Something of the Night. He is a sometimes presenter of documentaries for BBC Radio, and has appeared numerous times at festivals (including Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party and Wilderness) as one half of semi-legendary hippie cabaret duo 'Your Dad.'
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224097086 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224097083 |
| Title | A Hero for High Times |
| Author | Ian Marchant |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2018-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2018 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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