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| | The Quentin Crisp of 1970s suburbia | Books | Arts | Telegraph |
 | | Berlin Bromley casts a tense, disquieting spell from its opening pages, in which Marshall describes the brewing rage of his early adolescence amid the quietude of suburbia. |
 | | Oppressed by suburbia, and among the very first participants in the London punk scene, Berlin and the Bromley Contingent would swiftly find themselves in a metropolitan underworld in which drugs, prostitution, nihilism and an unshakeable belief in their own exclusivity were the dominating features. |
 | | Berlin Bromley is a unique record of punk's first manifestations, but this, one feels, is not the book's real story. |
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