The Stonemason

'God Sends Nuts to People Without Teeth or The Stonemason'. Billy Childish left school in 1976 at the age of 16, an undiagnosed dyslexic with no qualifications. Because of his lack of 'education' he was refused entry to art school without them even looking at his portfolio; with no alternatives on o [...]
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'God Sends Nuts to People Without Teeth or The Stonemason'. Billy Childish left school in 1976 at the age of 16, an undiagnosed dyslexic with no qualifications. Because of his lack of 'education' he was refused entry to art school without them even looking at his portfolio; with no alternatives on offer, he then entered Her Majesty's Dockyard, Chatham as an apprentice stone mason. This novel takes such raw material from the author's own life and then allows it to develop and twist into its own fictional truths as seen and told through the idiosyncratic language of Childish's dysfunctional anti-hero protagonist 'Gus Claudius'.