Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men - Brossura

Bateman, Colin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0006496121 ISBN 13: 9780006496120

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1996

Riassunto

Dan Starkey, hero of Divorcing Jack, is back in an entirely wonderful adventure in America.

Fat Boy McMaster is a hopeless heavyweight boxer, but he has managed to become champion of Ireland, and his devious manager has succeeded in setting up a gigantic payday (largely for himself, admittedly) with a St Patrick’s Day fight in New York against Mike Tyson. Journalist Dan Starkey is hired to write the book of the whole affair. Starkey tries to persuade his wife Patricia to give their marriage another try, but he has not succeeded before boarding the plane for the Big Apple with McMaster and his deeply suspect entourage. Once there McMaster’s wife is kidnapped, almost every interest group is outraged, the Champ is chased all over town by gunmen of varying allegiance, Starkey’s marriage is saved – and, yes, there is the Big Fight to consider too!

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Praise for Colin Bateman:

‘Hysterically funny one-liners and sinister Kafkaesque developments’
Daily Mail

‘If Roddy Doyle was as good as people say, he would probably write novels like this’
Arena

L'autore

Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and educated at Bangor Grammar School before joining the County Down Spectator, where he became deputy editor. In 1990 he received a Journalist’s Fellowship to Oxford University for his reports from Uganda and received the N.I. Press Award for his weekly satirical column. He now writes full-time. He lives with his wife and son.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0006496121
• ISBN 13: 9780006496120
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320