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| | Reviews: Stories We Could Tell by Tony Parsons | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books |
 | | Parsons settles old scores, pays a few debts and sets a few ghosts to rest, but the proud populist has no intention of betraying the ruthlessly sentimental needs of his loyal readers used to the familiar family setting. |
 | | We're reminded of the Tony Parsons that was - boy Mailer, Wolfe cub, scrapping to be star writer, effortlessly making the move from his white-bread-and-marge working-class background into the sparkling orbits of Iggy, Bowie and Strummer. |
 | | Parsons turns the NME years into a kind of Jennings adventure, with pills for ginger beer, sex replacing cricket, seedy squats instead of classrooms and 300 words about Be Bop Deluxe for homework. |
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