Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain
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Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain by Glenn Patterson
It is November 1991. Euro Dinsey is under construction, rising like a fanstastic beacon out of the mud of Marne-la-Vallee. And three people are sitting in the cavernous interior of Thunder Mountain at the heart of the Magic Kingdom, waiting. Sam believes himself to be on a mission to depose Mickey Mouse and restore to Disney World its 'lost' figurehead. Ilse Klein - a German canteen assistant who can fry fifty eggs at once - and Raymond Black - a Northern Irish construction worker - are his hostages. As a siege develops round the mountain, the novel reaches back into the lives of these three characters, from post-war Stuttgart to Sixties Berlin; from latter-day Belfast, to present-day Los Angeles and Paris. Provocative and thoughtful, comic and poignant, Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain is an explosive new novel about people and cities in the modern world.
Born in Belfast in 1961, Glenn Patterson is the author of Burning Your Own, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and Fat Lad, shortlisted for the GPA Book Award. He has been writer in residence at the Universities of East Anglia and Cork. He has lived in Norwich, Manchester and Cork, and is currently a writer in residence at Queen's University Belfast.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780749395636 |
| ISBN 10 | 074939563X |
| Title | Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain |
| Author | Glenn Patterson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1996-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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