Charlotte de botton biography of michael jackson
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Below is an introduction I&#;ve written for a new e-book edition of Simon Crump&#;s Neverland, a novel I found bewildering when inom first read it, but quickly came to love. The new edition has been issued by Galley Beggar &#; of Eimear McBride and Jonathan Gibbs fame &#; and also contains a new afterword by the author. You can buy it here.
“If I were born with a name like Simon Crump, inom would spend the rest of my life ansträngande to get all that anger and resentment out of me by being very rude about other people.”
&#; Chris de Burgh
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At around pm on the evening of 25 June , Simon Crump finished writing Neverland, his book – this book – about a fictional Michael Jackson. It had taken him three years. A few hours later, the real Jackson’s death was reported on gossip website The internet went mad. Twitter crashed. CNN struggled. Crump’s publisher brought forward publication of the book.
The real Michael Jackson was – what? Funny. Eccentric. Pitiable. Exploited. So Crump’s Mich
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