Lemmy Gorak

Shreds of Gorak: 21-30 (Short reads of Gorak, #3) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Memoir, anecdote and meaningful other: Shreds 21-30

Grand Theft Auto: An escapade while bunking off school with friends. We break into an abandoned car and discover how flammable the stringy seat stuffing is. Aroundabout Way: After a wild night out, I wake up on a mattress of bark chippings, in what at first I think is a garden… Calling Orson: Growing up with a violent stepdad and an absence of love expressed from my mother, I fall for a newly acquired puppy, Orson. The Leaf on My Boot: A leaf had stuck to the toe of my boot and I choose to return it to the wild. Supermarket Sweep: Day 10 of Lockdown; observations of a hellish trip to the supermarket in the weirdest of times. Run: After my friends are set-upon by a group of older, rough-looking types, I'm chased through streets and gardens of North London. Wedding Photography - The Stakeout: Roped-in as an assistant wedding photographer, I find myself in a socially awkward situation, as my professionalism is under scrutiny by a best man with a glaring facial disfigurement. Life Without Mackerel: Ruminations from inside a cold tent after a relationship meltdown. All Tomorrow's Parties: A suggestion that heroin is more suited to the elderly. Disappear from View: As a child I could become invisible simply by closing my eyes, providing great comfort and security.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lemmy Gorak
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201223267
• Artikelnr.: 62302207

Autorenporträt

After a short time spent sleeping on London's Circle Line, as a child I toured the capital, staying in a succession of refuges, tents and narrowboats. Although traumatic, it was a time rich with experience and freedoms most don't enjoy. Left to create my own life-map, I relied on nothing but hard-wired survival skills to get me through the many schools I attended, leaving with an O Level in Art and a handful of cardboard Sports Day medals.

Picking up a guitar - along with recreational drugs - I found therapy through an anarchic yet unsustainable lifestyle. After numerous shitty jobs and spells of unemployment, I cleaned up my act (a bit) and rediscovered a child-like wonder with the natural world - a connection that has ultimately been my saviour.

Seduced by mountains, I headed for the wilds of Cumbria, where with a Blues Harp I busked and played in local bars, before a virus with a household name had its way and a shocking end of an unhealthy relationship left me facing homelessness.

I love to amuse myself and make sense of things, and have always kept a diary and scribbled on the back of envelopes; caught in the flow. Now with head and heart aligned, I write in earnest, most mornings while it's still dark.