Of Love And Asthma - Couverture souple

Mount, Ferdinand

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099286947 ISBN 13 : 9780099286943

Editeur : Vintage, 2001

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Quite how Joseph Dudgeon Follows becomes one of the top dozen young entrepreneurs in the country before he is thirty is as bewildering as it is irritating. By then, this freckle-faced, stubby-legged asthmatic, who mangles his words when he speaks, has already made love to his uncle's mistress, his aunt, his professor's daughter and his aunt's daughter, to name but a few.

The narrator first meets Joe when they are fellow patients at the peculiar seaside clinic run by Dr Maintenon-Smith, the self-styled Napoleon of Asthma, and is humiliated and betrayed as he follows his exasperating friend, alternating wheeze for wheeze, through his giddy rise and giddier fall.

Présentation de l'éditeur

We should have awakened to the sun streaming in from across the valley, but this is not a story about things as they should be, and it was a dark blustery morning, blasting the blossom off the may. Only in the shelter of the high hedgerows down in the lanes streaked with red mud was there ant escape from the wind and the rain.Just as we were putting on our boots, I pinned down the unidentified fear of the night before. I had slept without my asthma pillow. It was not the first time . But this was the first time I had slept without it and not properly noticed until the morning after. This must, I though, be love. Would it be punished to?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099286947
• ISBN 13: 9780099286943
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336