I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal: Stories of a Birmingham Boy

Authors: Hill, Charlie
Publisher: Watkins Media
BISAC/Subject: BIO026000, FIC019000
ISBN: 9781912248995, Related ISBNs: 1912248980, 1912248999, 9781912248988, 9781912248995
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 112,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A vision of drinking, drugs, culture, sex, politics and masculinity in the Midlands in the 1980s and 1990s.

I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal tells the story of its author, Charlie Hill, living in the Midlands in the 1980s and 1990s.

In a series of vignettes, I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal recounts Hill's experiences with work, identity, sex, politics, drugs, homelessness and dissolution, set against the backdrop of Birmingham at the end of the twentieth century.
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