# Human Punk

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- Book: [Human Punk](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-king/human-punk) ([Human Punk.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-king/human-punk.md))
- Authors: [John King](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-king)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-316-4
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2001-06-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For fifteen-year-old Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, social-club lager, cut-throat Teds and a job picking cherries with the gypsies. Life is sweet - until he is beaten up and thrown in the Grand Union Canal with his best mate Smiles. Fast forward to 1988, and Joe is traveling home on the Trans-Siberian express after three years working in a Hong Kong bar, remembering the highs and lows of the intervening years as he comes to terms with catastrophe. Fast forward to 2000, and Joe is sitting pretty - earning a living as a DJ, selling records and fight tickets. Life is sweet again - until a face from the past forces him to re-live that night in 1977 and deal with the fall-out.