First in the World Somewhere: The True Adventures of a Scribbler, Siren, Saucepot and Pioneer - Couverture rigide

Pepper, Penny

 
9781783523474: First in the World Somewhere: The True Adventures of a Scribbler, Siren, Saucepot and Pioneer

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Penny Pepper has led an extraordinary life. She is a writer. Poet. Punk. Pioneer. Activist. And she also happens to be disabled. In her absorbing memoir, which spans the mid-1980s up until the millennium, Penny paints a picture of life, love, sex, music, success, failure and misadventures in the UK punk scene of the late 20th century.

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