{"product_id":"9781446492789","title":"Boy About Town","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I was no longer fitting in at school. I was unsure of my friends, and they were increasingly unsure of me. I wanted to be a rock star. But while all around, voices were starting to break, acne beginning to appear, facial hair sprouting, I remained all flabby flesh and innate scruff, with a high-pitched whine and not a muscle to my name. I was the runt of the class and rarely allowed to forget it. I had no father at home to help me out, and could hardly talk to my mum. So I took solace in The Jam.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAs a boy, Tony Fletcher frequently felt out of place. Yet somehow he secured a ringside seat for one of the most creative periods in British cultural history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoy About Town \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of the bestselling author’s formative years in the pre- and post-punk music scenes of London, counting down, from fifty to number one: attendance at seminal gigs and encounters with musical heroes; schoolboy projects that became national success stories; the style culture of punks, mods and skinheads and the tribal violence that enveloped them; life as a latchkey kid in a single-parent household; weekends on the football terraces in a quest for street credibility; and the teenage boy’s unending obsession with losing his virginity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoy About Town \u003c\/i\u003eis an evocative, bittersweet, amusing and wholly original account of growing up and coming of age in the glory days of the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167568412912,"sku":"9781446492789","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781446492789_p0.jpg?v=1763827495","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781446492789","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}