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Awaydays

Kevin Sampson

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English
Canongate Canons
22 October 2024
Series: Canons
I am the product of a blank generation. I live for kicks. I live for me.

Birkenhead, 1979. The Pack, a violent mob of Stanley-knife-wielding football hooligans, follow their team across the Northern wastelands to their away games - earning a reputation as the nastiest crew in the Third Division. For the young working-class men with no way out, their lives revolve around the fashion, the music and the mayhem. But for two of them, Carty and Elvis, escaping towards a different future might mean leaving each other behind.

Quickly gaining cult status when first published, Awaydays is both a powerful evocation of a time and a culture, and a poignant coming-of-age story about finding your identity, escaping your circumstances and the unspoken intensity of male friendships.
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Imprint:   Canongate Canons
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main - Canons
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   159g
ISBN:   9781837261895
ISBN 10:   183726189X
Series:   Canons
Pages:   224
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kevin Sampson is a British novelist and screenwriter, best known for his novels Awaydays (1998), Powder (1999), Stars Are Stars (2006) and The Killing Pool (2014). He began his career in the music industry by writing gig reviews for NME in the 80s and has written for i-D, Arena, Sounds, Time Out and the Observer. He was part of Produce Records, who had a string of Top 40 hits in the 90s including The Farm's 'Groovy Train' and 'All Together Now'. His screenwriting credits include Anne (ITV, 2022), The Hunt for Raoul Moat (2023) and the film adaption of Awaydays (2009). @ksampsonwriter

Reviews for Awaydays

Sampson is a fine storyteller . . . Nasty stuff, brilliantly told * * Guardian * * The dark side of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch * * NME * * An acutely observed rite-of-passage story . . . a time and a generation which has too often been reduced to cliché * * Independent on Sunday * * Awaydays is cheeky, entertaining and in parts dangerous * * Loaded * * A gritty novel with wit and humour at every turn * * Maxim * *


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