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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Red Sun Falling. Book.

Condizione: New.

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 426 pages. 6.00x1.07x9.00 inches. In Stock.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In a nursery-tale world in eclipse trampled over by post-modernist detritus, two dirty rotten scoundrels scrabble to the top over each other's backs. The top is fame. There is nothing else. ***On a blazing afternoon outside Toronto, on a flagstone patio shaded by an awning propped up in the best traditions of Jamaican sugar plantations, George Brossing, a wall-eyed hunchback, is getting whacked. Keeping an eye on his trembling hand inching towards his vodka glass, his radical partner Barbra pens poetry inspired by the rogue clover on the old tractor path to the creek - 'bloody is their shade'. The reeds along the creek, sticking out of mattresses of laundromat foam, barely stir in the dirty, superheated air. Looking out on his lost world, George, former farmboy, drifts into delirium tremens. In that dire twilight settling over the upmarket farmhouse, Herbie Peel is born in the kitchen sink.Herbie's fall from the mother potato is nothing compared to the shock of hitting the cold steel, which knocks a bit of the starch out of him. Dazed under the trickling tap, orphaned, bruised, and already despised, he is scooped up, dropped, and dragged out of the kitchen on a sticky heel. Half-conscious on the grass, washed over by waves of awakenings from the candlelit patio where well-connected guests from Toronto talk art and prize money, young Herbie soaks up big ambitions. Will he be the smartest Prince Edward Red ever, or just another pretentious phoney?After absorbing the last of the art talk, the fully awake one-eyed Herbie, hunchback, staggers upright and dashes off into the dark to make it big - and skids straight into the pages of an old book of Edwardian nursery tales left open on the dewy grass.'What makes this novel so brave and so original is exactly what would make it so difficult to publish.' Judy Clain, Little, Brown. A literary satire of ambition, fraud and culture crash set in an underground world inhabited by Edwardian England nursery tale characters overrun by modern detritus. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A reflective look back at years of hope and an abiding obsession with the history and literature of the War, Red Sun Falling covers the years between graduating from university in Guelph, leaving one bright winter morning for life in Europe, and returning six years later to a city that has moved on. The days pass now not in university lecture halls and libraries and student houses but in long walks, the Apollo diner, the Bookshelf café and cinema, the Albion hotel bar, outside taxi ranks and strip joints, in basement gyms and bedrooms with single mattresses on the floor; a few city blocks of a working-class town now home, at least for a while, to straggles of fellow ex-students, musicians, waitresses, barge-swabbers and welfare artists trying to get the rest of their lives going.In November the Berlin Wall falls and the author prepares to return to Europe - not to the postwar ruins of Berlin, nor to rainy London, but onward to Czechoslovakia. As the book nears its end, from underneath it all emerges a story of failed love as subtle as a pinprick.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A literary satire of ambition and celebrity-seeking in a nocturnal underground world of Edwardian nursery-tale characters trampled over by desperately modern detritus and cast-offs all trying to be some kind of somebody.***In the dire twilight of a blazing afternoon, Herbie Peel is born in the kitchen sink of an upmarket farmhouse outside Toronto, with a cool patio out back shaded by an awning propped up in the best traditions of Jamaican sugar plantations.'You're a fantastic writer, but publishing this book in Canada will ruin your career before it even starts. Get on the bestseller lists first.' Janie Yoon, literary agent's assistant, Toronto.Herbie's fall from the mother potato is nothing compared to the shock of hitting the cold steel, which knocks a bit of the starch out of him. As he lies dazed under the trickling tap, orphaned, bruised, and already despised, the last fresh air of the world drifts in from the candlelit patio where tony guests from Toronto talk art, radio and publishing prizes. Washed over by waves of awakenings, young Herbie soaks up big ambitions. Will he be the smartest Prince Edward Red ever, or just another pretentious phoney?'I can't decide if you're a genius or a lunatic.' Chris Labonte, McIntyre & Douglas, Vancouver.After absorbing the last of the hallucinations of the bitterly unfulfilled hunchback, no artist he, who bought the old stone farmhouse for his radical artist-professor partner, formerly known as 'wife', the little peel rushes off into the dark to make it big - and slips straight into the pages of an old book of nursery tales left open on the dewy grass.'What makes this novel so brave and so original is exactly what would make it so difficult to publish.' Judy Clain, Little, Brown, New York. A literary satire of ambition, fraud and culture crash set in an underground world inhabited by Edwardian England nursery tale characters overrun by modern detritus. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A literary satire of ambition and celebrity-seeking in a nocturnal underground world of Edwardian nursery-tale characters trampled over by desperately modern detritus and cast-offs all trying to be some kind of somebody.***In the dire twilight of a blazing afternoon, Herbie Peel is born in the kitchen sink of an upmarket farmhouse outside Toronto, with a cool patio out back shaded by an awning propped up in the best traditions of Jamaican sugar plantations.'You're a fantastic writer, but publishing this book in Canada will ruin your career before it even starts. Get on the bestseller lists first.' Janie Yoon, literary agent's assistant, Toronto.Herbie's fall from the mother potato is nothing compared to the shock of hitting the cold steel, which knocks a bit of the starch out of him. As he lies dazed under the trickling tap, orphaned, bruised, and already despised, the last fresh air of the world drifts in from the candlelit patio where tony guests from Toronto talk art, radio and publishing prizes. Washed over by waves of awakenings, young Herbie soaks up big ambitions. Will he be the smartest Prince Edward Red ever, or just another pretentious phoney?'I can't decide if you're a genius or a lunatic.' Chris Labonte, McIntyre & Douglas, Vancouver.After absorbing the last of the hallucinations of the bitterly unfulfilled hunchback, no artist he, who bought the old stone farmhouse for his radical artist-professor partner, formerly known as 'wife', the little peel rushes off into the dark to make it big - and slips straight into the pages of an old book of nursery tales left open on the dewy grass.'What makes this novel so brave and so original is exactly what would make it so difficult to publish.' Judy Clain, Little, Brown, New York. A literary satire of ambition, fraud and culture crash set in an underground world inhabited by Edwardian England nursery tale characters overrun by modern detritus. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In a nursery-tale world in eclipse trampled over by post-modernist detritus, two dirty rotten scoundrels scrabble to the top over each other's backs. The top is fame. There is nothing else. \*\*\*On a blazing afternoon outside Guelph, on a flagstone patio shaded by an awning propped up in the best traditions of Jamaican sugar plantations, George Brossing, a wall-eyed hunchback, is getting whacked. Keeping an eye on his trembling hand inching towards his vodka glass, his radical partner Barbra pens poetry inspired by the rogue clover on the old tractor path to the creek - 'bloody is their shade'. The reeds along the creek, sticking out of mattresses of laundromat foam, barely stir in the dirty, superheated air. Looking out on his lost world, George, former farmboy, drifts into delirium tremens. In that dire twilight settling over the upmarket farmhouse, Herbie Peel is born in the kitchen sink.Herbie's fall from the mother potato is nothing compared to the shock of hitting the cold steel, which knocks a bit of the starch out of him. Dazed under the trickling tap, orphaned, bruised, and already despised, he is scooped up, dropped, and dragged out of the kitchen on a sticky heel. Half-conscious on the grass, washed over by waves of awakenings from the candlelit patio where well-connected guests from Toronto talk art and prize money, young Herbie soaks up big ambitions. Will he be the smartest Prince Edward Red ever, or just another pretentious phoney After absorbing the last of the art talk, the fully awake one-eyed Herbie, hunchback, staggers upright and dashes off into the dark to make it big - and skids straight into the pages of an old book of Edwardian nursery tales left open on the dewy grass.'What makes this novel so brave and so original is exactly what would make it so difficult to publish.' - Judy Clain, Little, Brown.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Red Sun Falling | Anton Baer | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Takhini Books | EAN 9781067484620 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. TRASHLAND | Anton Baer | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Takhini Books | EAN 9781067484606 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.