Thong Nation by Henry Sutton
Zara wants to do it in the Med, Alicia wants a Brazilian to please Mikey, Sally prefers the garden hose to Brian, and Catherine can only find satisfaction on the tennis court. Charlie and Dorothy?s four over-sexed, grown-up daughters struggle to find fulfilment in Blair?s skimpy Britain, as materialism is turned on its head and less becomes more. Deeply satirical, Thong Nation follows one extended family?s fortunes and misfortunes over the course of a long hot summer. Zara is a fledgling rep for failing holiday company Majorcan Dreams. Alicia is a teacher at a grossly under-funded inner-city primary school, and hooked up with seedy boyfriend Mikey. Sally has just been made redundant from her high paying IT job, and wishes hubby Brian was ten times more exciting. And Catherine is a very cross single mum. Thong Nation?s climax comes at golf-mad Charlie?s not-so-surprise 70th birthday party when all the family, and a few uninvited guests, have gathered in a supposedly luxury seaside villa.
A series of extremely funny short stories about four over-sexed sisters -- B Magazine ?Henry Sutton has always had a knack for squeezing the national zeitgeist into his booksHis latest will, I suspect, give rise to an exclamation rendering the old ?Damnation!? obsolete. ?Thongnation! (not in polite use): expression of outrag * scathing and hilarious.?? Geoff Dyer *
Henry Sutton was born in Norfolk in 1963, and lived there until he was 18. Since then he has lived mainly in south London. When not writing fiction he works as a journalist. He's written for most national newspapers and many magazines, covering the arts, books, travel and lifestyle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852428945 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852428945 |
| Title | Thong Nation |
| Author | Henry Sutton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-06-09 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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