Ring Road by Ian Sansom
A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving.‘The tone is part elegy, part satire, part howl and very, very funnyI laughed more times than I can remember over a novel for years … Ring Road is well-observed and endlessly inventive, with all the messiness of a real place. Sansom’s deadpan voice throws up jokes on every page.’ Observer
‘Sansom has a talent for demonstrating how the fantastic can grown quite naturally out of the familiar .. Few books published these days can fairly be described as charming and fewer still are the product of so generous an intelligence … It’s mellow, intelligent and very funny, a perfect antidote for melancholy.’ Michael Moorcock, Guardian
‘There is something fearless in the gaze Sansom turns on banality, and this novel is, in the end, a surprisingly gripping feat of coming to terms with what ordinary life is like.’ TLS
‘A wonderfully comic novel.’ Daily Mail
Ian Sansom reviews regularly for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. His first book, The Truth About Babies, was published by Granta in 2002.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007156542 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007156545 |
| Title | Ring Road |
| Author | Ian Sansom |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2005-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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