May Contain Nuts: A Novel of Extreme Parenting - Brossura

O'Farrell, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802170153 ISBN 13: 9780802170156

Casa editrice: Black Cat, 2005

Riassunto

One of Britain's most well-respected writers serves up a hilarious novel of modern parenting, focusing on a couple--David and Alice--whose various attempts to push their children fail in spectacular ways. Original.

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L'autore:

John O'Farrell has weekly columns in both The Guardian and The Independent.

Product Description:

Alice never imagined she would end up like this, so anxious after hearing about the dangers of meteorites that she makes her children wear bike helmets in the wading pool. Her husband, David, has taught their four-year-old to list every animal represented in Prokofiev s "Peter and the Wolf." But the more they push their children, the more things there are to worry about. It seems no amount of gluten rationing or herbal teas can improve their children s intellectual development, and as Alice s eldest child looks set to fail her entrance exam for the exclusive private school on which her parents have pinned all their hopes, Alice decides to take matters into her own hands. With a baseball cap pulled low over her face, Alice shuffles into a hall of two hundred kids and takes the test in place of her daughter, her first examination in twenty years. With a comic eye for detail that has sent his books to the top of the British best-seller lists, "May Contain Nuts" is a funny, compelling, and provocative satire of the manic world of today s overcompetitive, overprotective families."

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• Editore: Black Cat
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0802170153
• ISBN 13: 9780802170156
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 319