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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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Priestdaddy A Memoir

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    A Paperback / softback by Patricia Lockwood

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 3 May 2018
      ISBN-13 9780141984599
      978-0141984599
      ISBN-10 0141984597
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      Non Fiction Biography Memoirs Humour Politics, Philosophy & Society Right-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements

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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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