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David Katz: People Funny Boy — The Genius Of Lee "Scratch" Perry (Canongate Pbk)

Ian Penman, The Wire, June 2000

THIS BOOK — a book I was avid to read, whose subject I revere; whose life is a gift to any halfway capable biographer — depressed me beyond all measure.

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