Calabash by Christopher Fowler
Kay Goodwin is a 16-year-old boy with a smart mouth and too much imagination. Marooned in the rundown seaside resort of Cole Bay, his life is a horrible comedy of errors that has trapped him in the country's most dismal place at the worst possible time - the early '70s. He dreams of escaping the crumbling pier and the grumbling pensioners, of finding a place where he is appreciated, but it's the one thing he can't do. Until he discovers a faraway land with characters who are impossibly exotic, but strangely familiar. In the kingdom of Calabash he can have everything he's ever wanted from life. There's only one small problem. Calabash doesn't actually exist. In an England that's still hungover from the 60s, everyone in Cole Bay expects him to conform, but Kay is prepared to risk everything to find out what makes him different, what his life really holds, and what will happen if he believes in the impossible... Christopher Fowler's warm-hearted new novel takes place at the most painful point of growing up, where dreams are broken but where everyone gets one last chance to be free.
'Anyone who served their adolescence in the awful Seventies can't help but wince in recognition of Fowler's sharp and witty portrayal of the era, while Cole Bay itself is so depressingly familiar you feel you could be looking at your old holiday snaps' THE TIMES
Christopher Fowler is a director of The Creative Partnership, a film promotion company based in Soho. He is the author of several novels including ROOFWORLD, RUNE, SPANKY, PSYCHOVILLE, DISTURBIA and SOHO BLACK and five highly acclaimed short story collections, including FLESH WOUNDS and UNCUT.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780751530407 |
| ISBN 10 | 0751530409 |
| Title | Calabash |
| Author | Christopher Fowler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2000-05-04 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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