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The city's booming. The skyline's dominated by a giant new stadium and the derelict docks are being reborn as Cardiff Bay. The Welsh Assembly kicks off in a welter of sexual scandal, fireworks and Shirley Bassey.
Charlie Unger's dead, been lying in his flat for a week. Charlie was old Cardiff through and through. Like Dame Shirley, he was a black kid from Tiger Bay. He found fame and fortune in the fifties as a boxer, lightweight champion of the world. Charlie's funeral brought the Wurriyas back together again - five lost souls looking for a place in their city's brave new millennium.
Charlie Unger's dead, been lying in his flat for a week. Charlie was old Cardiff through and through. Like Dame Shirley, he was a black kid from Tiger Bay. He found fame and fortune in the fifties as a boxer, lightweight champion of the world. Charlie's funeral brought the Wurriyas back together again - five lost souls looking for a place in their city's brave new millennium.
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John Williams is a contributing editor at GQ, and also a regular reviewer on various subjects; crime for The Mail on Sunday, fiction for The Independent and a travel writer forThe Sunday Times. He was born in Cardiff and has lived in Paris and London where he worked in the music industry in various bands, before turning to writing as a career.
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Welsh noir, anyone? In this poignant tale of Cardiff lowlifes (to coin a Welsh phrase, "if anything green still grows in my valley it must be marijuana") by Cardiff native Williams (Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub), Mazz, a disillusioned over-the-hill rock guitarist, returns home. It was in Cardiff, at 19, that Mazz's promise blossomed momentarily when he and his friend Charlie Unger formed a band called the Wurriyas. They were good, made a record. Mazz wrote a hit song. The dreams got as far as London, then faded out. Now Charlie former lightweight champion of the world is discovered in his hotel room five days after he died, apparently of natural causes. Or did he? Mazz wants to find out because Charlie was his friend, but also because, as with everything else in the lives of people he knew back then, no one cares why it all went to hell. Cardiff is changing. There's a lot of construction: out with the old, make big money on the new. Anyone who stands in the way of progress gets plowed under. Was that what happened to Charlie? Mazz's search for answers leads him to beaches, prostitute hangouts, boardrooms and boxing gyms. The mystery is incidental to the story of Mazz's struggle to come to terms with his past and make a new life for himself, but Williams ties it all together in the end. Besides some effective passages in the present-day narrative, the flashbacks that run throughout chronicling the rise and fall of the Wurriyas are generally the most compelling parts of the book.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Ltd
- Publication date2000
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