{"product_id":"stranded-in-the-future-robyn-hitchcock-9781636142999","title":"Stranded in the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"British singer-songwriter Hitchcock wistfully reflects on boarding school and the music that shaped him in this captivating chronicle of the year he credits with sculpting his artistic sensibility . . . Readers need not be fans of Hitchcock's music to find this enchanting.\" --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003e1967\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Memoirists rarely begin their work with a stroke of genuine inspiration, and Robyn Hitchcock's ingenious idea to limit his account of his life to the titular year gives this sharp, funny, finely written book an unusually keen, wistful intensity without sacrificing its sense of the breathtaking sweep of time. I absolutely adored every line of \u003cem\u003e1967\u003c\/em\u003e and every moment I spent reading it.\" --Michael Chabon, author of \u003cem\u003eTelegraph Avenue, \u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003e1967\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSTRANDED IN THE FUTURE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e is a kind of dystopian self-portrait. It's about obsession, and obsessive behavior. Spanning from 1968 to 1978, it takes in the mythology surrounding Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett (though it doesn't name him) and hinges on Robyn Hitchcock's teenage girlfriend (she isn't named either). The book explores the way that Hitchcock, in his own head, linked these two figures to each other, although they never actually met.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the way, the story mines the incremental hangover of the 1970s as Hitchcock begins to play live, teaches himself to write songs, and eventually forms the Soft Boys. There's a side order of trolleybuses too! Hitchcock's beautiful prose will resonate far beyond the fans of his music, and build on the literary following he established with his first book, \u003cem\u003e1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robyn Hitchcock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1636142990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781636142999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Akashic Books, Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Robyn Hitchcock","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48454242402559,"sku":"9781636142999","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_176f5e2d-b08f-4ac0-b4bb-645b0f100e31.jpg?v=1777305027","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stranded-in-the-future-robyn-hitchcock-9781636142999","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}