Name: Tree Surgery for Beginners von Patrick Gale
SKU: 9780006550747
Price: 5.69 EUR
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Tree Surgery for Beginners Zusammenfassung

Tree Surgery for Beginners Patrick Gale

A vivid and compelling portrait of a man at odds with himself; and an extended family of friends and lovers trying to take its proper shape.

Lawrence Frost has neither father nor siblings, and fits so awkwardly into his worldly mother's life he might have dropped from the sky. Like many such heroes, he grows up happier with plants than people. While he is straightforward, honest, and a doting dad, he can be a difficult, taciturn husband - but he's the last person one would suspect of being a killer.

Waking one morning to find himself branded a wife-beater and under suspicion of murder, his small world falls apart as he loses wife, daughter, liberty, livelihood and, almost, his mind.

Tree Surgery for Beginners Bewertungen

`This is vintage Patrick Gale - witty, funny, poignant, and utterly absorbing...This is a book full of forgiveness - and everyday encounters with tigers, transsexuals and sexy, repentant murderers. It's a long hard look at love, sex, violence, and other unconventional family values.' Patricia Duncker

`In this very fine novel Patrick Gale proves, yet again, that he is both an exceptionally acute observer of human nature and a storyteller of the first order.' Barbara Gowdy

`The book is one of his best: a fluently constructed narrative underpinned by excellent characterisation. Running through it all is the theme of redemption; and the hero's journey from despair to hope makes a stirring odyssey for the reader.' Sunday Telegraph

`Gale's energetic novel is a carnival of events in which credible characters find themselves in incredible situations.' Daily Telegraph

`A readable, entertaining and occasionally moving yarn.' The Times

`Gale is a comic writer along the lines of Tom Sharpe. [He] is at his most insightful in his descriptions of character, both of individuals and of the Frost family as a whole. Tree Surgery for Beginners' is a comic thriller in which family tree takes on new meanings.' Observer

Über Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford and now writes full time.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR001347653

ISBN 13

9780006550747

ISBN 10

0006550746

Titel

Tree Surgery for Beginners Patrick Gale

Autor

Patrick Gale

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

HarperCollins Publishers

Datum

20020402

Anzahl der Seiten

288

Preise

N/A

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