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

Pepper, Penny

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

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.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.