The Giro Playboy Author:Michael Smith An utterly charming miniature picaresque and a portrait of a life blissfully unmoored, "The Giro Playboy" is a 21st-century beat classic in the making. "The Giro Playboy" recounts the (mis)adventures of a delusional drifter and his wanderings from the north-east to London (where the streets are paved with gold), and on to Brighton and the badlan... more »ds of Essex. Along the way, he falls in love, drinks a lot of beer, eats too many sweets, ponders the meaning of life on the dole, and gets admitted to hospital for a painful condition - all the time measuring his life in cigarettes.« less