The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers
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The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday
A modern TALE OF TWO CITIES by the bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN.
"one of the most outstanding authors to have emerged in recent years" -- Caroline Jowett DAILY EXPRESS "Torday is master of blending satire with gentle humanity" -- Clare Longrigg PSYCHOLOGIES "Charlie then turns up at Henry's house - and Eck begins to see a disturbing reflection of himself" -- Kate Saunders THE TIMES "Charlie is a wonderful creation, at once sad and heroic, whose search for redemption attains real pathos at the end of this affecting, skilfully crafted novel" -- David Evans FINANCIAL TIMES "shades of both Greene and Ambler here, both in the crispness of the exposition and the marrying of humour with something close to tragedy" -- John Preston THE SPECTATOR "A beautifully told tale - we loved it!" BELLA "A brilliant, page-turning read that combines the pace of Torday's The Girl on the Landing with his trademark humour in Salmon Fishing" GRANTA "a fine taleEven the worst of us, according to this novel, can find redemption" -- Virginina Blackburn DAILY EXPRESS "Brilliantly and sympathetically drawn. this wonderfully written, clever book does not miss a single trick" -- Wendy Moore DAILY MAIL Four stars SHE "This is his fourth novel and it too deserves to do well... It is funny, touching and ultimately surprising" -- Allan Massie THE SCOTSMAN "his quietly compassionate portrait of Charlie has powerful echoes off Dickens's Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities" -- Claire Allfree METRO "another deft and likeable comedy from Torday" -- Max Davidson MAIL ON SUNDAY "this is a hugely readable and largely fluent novel" -- Elizabeth Buchan SUNDAY TIMES "The Salmon Fishing in the Yemen author is now achieving 'must-read' status. You're in for an Eck of a good time" NEWS OF THE WORLD "Torday's novel gives a strong impression of the callous indifference that moving around big sums of other people's money tends to entail." -- David Horspool TLS
Paul Torday was born in 1946 and read English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. He spent the next 30 years working in engineering and in industry, after which he scaled back his business responsibilities to fulfil a long-harboured ambition - to write. He burst on to the literary scene in 2006 with his first novel, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, an immediate bestseller that has been sold in 22 countries. He is married with two sons by a previous marriage and has two stepsons and lives close to the River North Tyne.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297855262 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297855263 |
| Title | The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers |
| Author | Paul Torday |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2010-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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