The Giro Playboy

by Michael Smith (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $30.31

  An utterly charming miniature picaresque and a portrait of a life blissfully unmoored, The Giro Playboy is a 21st-century beat classic in the making. The Giro Playboy recounts the (mis)adventures of a delusional drifter and his wanderings from the north-east to London (where the streets are paved with gold), and on to Brighton and the badlands of Essex. Along the way, he falls in love, drinks a lot of beer, eats too many sweets, ponders the meaning of life on the dole, and gets admitted to hospital for a painful condition - all the time measuring his life in cigarettes.