Isbn: 9781066763542 - recreation and other stories (4 risultati)

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: New.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - These are the best, worst and strangest people you could meet: bullied schoolchildren, lecherous ravers, religious loners and bored obsessives populate a world where normality becomes nightmarish and secrets dominate everything. The ten tales of Recreation And Other Stories lead you through the lives of characters with too little - or too much - time to decide what they truly want from life. In 'Fairy Wings' an ageing party animal cannot resist making trouble for her friends; in 'When The Classroom Came To Life' one poor schoolboy is both a victim and the cause of his own downfall; in 'Scarlett' a lovelorn teenager finally pays the price for his cruelty; in 'The Lord's Work' a woman who put faith before herself wonders what she has to show for it; and in 'Daniel And Jeremy' a young man finally admits the truth about his sexuality amid the unsettling carnival of a village festival. Recreation And Other Stories is a collection of ten stories by author and journalist George Chesterton. It's about the trials of life, from young love to middle-aged madness to the serene but darkening descent of the elderly. It is comic and absurd, with characters crippled by uncertainty and doubt. Just your everyday kind of people really.…