The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange

Brand: Soho Press

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$21.51 - $300.00
UPC:
9781569476017
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11/1/2009
Release Date:
11/1/2009
Author:
Mark Barrowcliffe
Language:
english
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In the summer of 1976, twelve-year-old Mark Barrowcliffe had a chance to be normal. He blew it. While other teenagers were being coolly rebellious, Markand twenty million other boys in the 1970s and 80schose to spend his adolescence pretending to be a warrior, an evil priest, or a dwarf. He had discovered Dungeons & Dragons, and his life would never be the same. No longer would he have to settle for being Mark Barrowcliffe, an ordinary awkward teenager from working-class Coventry, England; he could be Alf the Elf, Foghat the Gnome, or Effilc Worrab, an elven warrior with the head of a mule. This is an hilarious memoir of an adolescence spent entirely in the world of fantasy.