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''Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017'' Vogue
''Glorious'' Sunday Times
''Laugh-out-loud funny'' The Times
''Extraordinary'' Observer
''Exceptional'' Telegraph
''Electric'' New York Times
''Snort-out-loud'' Financial Times
''Dazzling'' Guardian
''Do yourself a favour and read this memoir!'' BookPage

WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOUR

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed ''The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas'' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and arnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, freque

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Extraordinary * Observer *
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Dazzling * Guardian *

Priestdaddy A Memoir

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 03/05/2018
    ISBN13: 9780141984599, 978-0141984599
    ISBN10: 0141984597

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    Book Synopsis

    ''Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017'' Vogue
    ''Glorious'' Sunday Times
    ''Laugh-out-loud funny'' The Times
    ''Extraordinary'' Observer
    ''Exceptional'' Telegraph
    ''Electric'' New York Times
    ''Snort-out-loud'' Financial Times
    ''Dazzling'' Guardian
    ''Do yourself a favour and read this memoir!'' BookPage

    WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOUR

    The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed ''The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas'' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and arnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, freque

    Trade Review
    Glorious * Sunday Times *
    Extraordinary * Observer *
    Electric * New York Times *
    Exceptional * Telegraph *
    Snort-out-loud * Financial Times *
    Dazzling * Guardian *

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