The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still by Malcolm Pryce
In the latest hilarious instalment of Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth mysteries, Wales's answer to Philip Marlowe faces an axe-wielding rabbit-hugger, a green-eyed beauty who answers to the name Miaow, and a case that is out of this worldSurreal, absurd and very funny.. ingredients include a Buick sought by an alien from another planet; a mayoral election that has replaced voting with a human cannonball; and wisecracks that would make Groucho Marx jealous * The Times *
Pryce continues to put a uniquely surreal spin on the hoary old conventions of noir writing ... It's impossibly weird and, in parts, beautifully lyrical. Pryce's many fans certainly won't be disappointed * Guardian *
You'll weep and laugh, on the same page. Wonderful * Guardian *
Pryce's Aberystwyth is populated by the same hoods, crooks, heavies, conmen, liars, informers, dealers and bureaucrats that prop up the street corners of Raymond Chandler's LA, Louie himself possessing the same unshakable idealism and acid tongue as Philip Marlowe * Time Out *
Poor Aberystwyth. Malcolm Pryce has taken this blameless town and turned it into a nightmarish world ... his plots are as satisfying as those of some of the best straight practitioners * Daily Telegraph *
Malcolm Pryce was born in the UK and has spent much of his life working and travelling abroad. He has been, at various times, a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up, a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the world's worst aluminium salesman. In 1998 he gave up his day job and booked a passage on a banana boat bound for South America in order to write Aberystwyth Mon Amour. He spent the next seven years living in Bangkok, where he wrote three more novels in the series, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being in
Aberystwyth and Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth. In 2007 he moved back to the UK and now lives in Oxford, where he wrote his most recent novel, From Aberystwyth with Love.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408810255 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408810255 |
| Title | The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still |
| Author | Malcolm Pryce |
| Series | The Aberystwyth Mysteries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2011-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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