Corkscrew: The highly improbable, but occasionally true, tale of a professional wine buyer (The Felix Hart Novels)

Stafford-Bow, Peter

ISBN 10: 1911079352 / ISBN 13: 9781911079354

Editore: I_AM Self-Publishing, 2016

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Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize 2018

"One of the funniest novels I've ever read. I honestly didn't want this book to end." The Wine Stalker

Felix Hart, a tragic orphan, is expelled from school, cast onto the British high street, and forced to make his way in the cut-throat world of wine retailing. Thanks to a positive mental attitude, he is soon forging a promising career, his sensual adventures taking him to the vineyards of Italy, South Africa, Bulgaria and Kent. His path to the summit is littered with obstacles, however. Petty office politics, psychotic managers and the British Board of Wine & Liquor prove challenging enough. But when Felix negotiates the world’s biggest Asti Spumante deal, he bites off more than he can chew and is plunged into a terrifying world of Mafiosi, people smuggling and ruthless multinationals.

Part thriller, part self-help manual and part drinking companion, Corkscrew is a coruscating critique of neo-liberal capitalism, religious intolerance and the perils of blind tasting.

"…a rollicking ride through the international wine scene. I highly recommend it."
- Neil Dubois, Red Wine Please

"Outrageously bawdy and ridiculously improbable… a huge amount of fun."
- Simon Woolf, The Morning Claret

"This book gets a big thumbs up from me... this is not for youngsters."
- Dave Nershi, Vino-Sphere.com

Informazioni sull?autore: Peter Stafford-Bow was born into a drinking family in the north of England in the mid-1970s. A precocious, self-taught imbiber, he dropped out of university to pursue a career in alcohol. After managing several downmarket London wine merchants, he became a supermarket buyer, a role which kindled his life-long love of food, other people's hospitality, and general gadding about. After periods living in East Asia and South Africa, Stafford-Bow returned to the UK to pursue a literary career. He has written three successful novels; Corkscrew, Brut Force and Firing Blancs. He lives in London with his beer executive girlfriend, an extensive wine collection and his pet ferrets, Brett and Corky.

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Titolo: Corkscrew: The highly improbable, but ...
Casa editrice: I_AM Self-Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2016
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Very Good