First in the World Somewhere (eBook)

Penny Pepper (Autor)

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2017
Random House (Verlag)
978-1-78352-348-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An absorbing memoir about facing life, love, failure, success, prejudice and misadventure – all from a wheelchair – from writer, punk, pioneer and well-known disability rights activist Penny Pepper.

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PennyPepper has led an extraordinary life. She is a writer, an activist, a punkpioneer. She also happens to be disabled. In her absorbing memoir, Penny paintsa raucous picture of life, love, music and misadventure, from Thatcher sbattleground of the mid-1980s through to the early Blair years. Cravingfreedom from the home counties council estate where she grew up, Penny dreamsof moving to London and finding her way in the city s punk scene. Without whatothers take for granted, she sets out armed only with her raw, burgeoningtalent to fight the social demons of indifference and bigotry, all whiledressed in leather bondage skirts, fishnets and hair extensions. Thereare parties; there s sex; there s music. She exchanges letters with Morrissey. Ken Livingstonehelps her find a wheelchair-accessible flat. Her demo tape is reviewed in the NME and played on the radio. Her album Spiral Sky is No. 1 inGreece for a week. And there is opportunity to join the radical beginnings ofthe disability rights movement.First in the World Somewhere is the chronicle of her passions and herstruggles, told with startling honesty and a razor-sharp wit, fearless in theface of prejudice.

Autor

Penny Pepper is a genre-defying writer and well-known rights activist. She wrote the taboo-breaking book Desires Reborn in 2012, and in 2013 she won a Creative Futures Literary Award. In 2014 her one-woman spoken word show, Lost in Spaces, premiered to strong reviews at Soho Theatre, and then toured in autumn 2015. She has appeared as a guest on the Victoria Derbyshire show, Newsnight, Sky News and BBC Radio5Live Hitlist. She has written columns for the Guardian and Access magazine and a blog for Mslexia magazine.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1980s • 1990s • 70s • 80s • 90s • activism • Activist • Artist • Autobiography • Blair • British punk • Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. • council estate • Desires Reborn • Disabilities • disability rights • disability rights activist • disability rights movement • disabled experience • Girl in a Band Kim Gordon • Ken Livingstone • Love • Memoir • Morrissey • music • New Wave • Poet • Pop Music • Prejudice • punk movement • Punk Music • Punk scene • pure • Rock and Roll • Rose Bretecher • Social Activism • Spiral Sky • Thatcher • Viv Albertine • Wheelchair • Writer
• ISBN-10: 1-78352-348-4 / 1783523484
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78352-348-1 / 9781783523481