But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? - Book

THIS IS A PREORDER. IT SHIPS FEBRUARYAny orders containing a "Pre-Order" item will ship together when the pre-order ships. Please make a separate order if you wish to receive non pre-order items before the pre-order ship date. Boff Whalley is one of the founding members of the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba. Life’s stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much. Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposition, action, and climax. It’s a neat and tidy way of telling a story. But life’s not like that, is it? It doesn’t obey the rules. Life’s stories—like the stories told here in But, personal and impersonal, historical and contemporary—are punctuated by disruption, derailment, and digression. Stories where the good guys lose. Stories where the bad girls win. Stories that just stop in the middle. Stories that fizzle out or simply never get going. Stories that don’t make sense. Storie