{"product_id":"idiot-paperback","title":"Idiot - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOscar Fenner\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eChris Fenner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly, a diffident stray and amateur drummer, meets Liz, who persuades him to move into a squat with her and start a band.Liz is soon side-tracked into music journalism and the lure of pop stardom in America, leaving Billy to a bittersweet, close-to-desperation existence in a wasteland of ex-council squats and seedy pubs. Wandering through a series of misadventures, he encounters various would-be musicians, gay entertainers, chronic drunks, borderline psychotics and dysfunctional hospital porters.The milieu is mid-eighties South London, the forsaken docklands of Rotherhithe, populated by scruffy, resourceful folk living hand to mouth in the flipside to yuppie-dom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 7.99 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42100832600199,"sku":"9798631995352","price":7.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e59dd3fc76c23dc0fa93da05f4f40911.webp?v=1732388407","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/idiot-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}