Spanish Steps - Couverture souple

Moore, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099471949 ISBN 13 : 9780099471943

Editeur : Vintage, 2005

Synopsis

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.

Being larger than a cat, the donkey is the kind of animal Tim Moore is slightly scared of. Yet intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval Europeans, and committed to historical authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for Santiago de Compostela.

Over 500 miles of extreme weather and agonising bestial sloth, it becomes memorably apparent that for the multinational band of eccentrics who keep the Santiagan flame alive, the pilgrimage has evolved from a purely devotional undertaking into a mobile therapist's couch.

'Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he is in fact a writer of considerably more substance and the jokes come thick and fast' Irish Times

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tim Moore’s writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of Gironimo!, French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps, Nul Points, I Believe In Yesterday and You Are Awful (But I Like You). He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099471949
• ISBN 13: 9780099471943
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible