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Well my punky friends, here is a little treat for you. I've serialised over seven pages here The Punk by Gideon Sams which was first published in 1977 by Polytantric Press (500 copies) and then Corgi books. When I read it, which took about 25 minutes, I was in stitches with laughter. That said it has its moments though and is at least entertaining. It has all the punk themes at the time...alienation, teds, punk music, clothes, squalor, violence and no future. To be honest the blurb on the back cover and inside is priceless. Classic pulp fiction description. Still not bad for a fourteen year old pizza maker who wants to become a brain surgeon while designing a skateboard he can pogo on !!! Where is he now... unfortunately he died young at 26. The only thing worse than this book is the laughable pseudo twaddle written about the book by Miriam Rivett in her chapter 'Misfit Lit' in the book 'Punk Rock:So What?' where she sees the lifelong struggle between young and old etc etc. At least Gideon was young... what's her excuse ?! |
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Here's the blurb from the inside cover. "Gideon Sams was born in 1962. After an unsettled childhood...eight primary schools...he spent the last three years at Westminster City Grammar school, where he showed an obvious talent for languages. With little effort he was capable of driving his teachers to distraction with his unorthodox approach to classroom discipline. He does almost all his homework at the Cadogan Pool Room in King Road. An avid outdoor skate board enthusiast, his current project is designing a skate board he can 'pogo' on while traveling at high speeds. Gideon Sams wrote 'The Punk' as a class room project. It was rescued from the dustbin by an over zealous mother who saw in it a chance for social redemption. Meanwhile, Gideon works in his father's wholefoods empire as a short order wholewheat Pizza cook. " |
