Just a Little Disco on an Open-Top Bus - Couverture souple

Guard, Candy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141023236 ISBN 13 : 9780141023236

Editeur : Penguin, 2006

Synopsis

RECIPE

An Illustrated Year in the Life of Edie Dudman,

Girl in a Rut

1982/3

INGREDIENTS

Edie

(a twenty-one year-old, self-deluding, hypochondriac female)

1 bastard boyfriend (never phones)

1 grown-up friend (never moans)

1 mad mother (crisp in teeth)

1 admirer (obsessed with death)

1 potential boyfriend (slightly grubby)

one-legged neighbour (calls her ‘laddie’)

1 large buck rabbit (says ‘Gimme five’)

1 job in a bakery (just to survive)

FOR THE BASE

1 small ‘30s estate

1 High Street, with

1 bakery – Crusties

1 hairdresser – Herr Cutt

A handful of pubs

1 adult education centre

1 boutique – Miss Selfish

Serve up on a bed of wilted aspirations with a dollop of humour, a dash of tragedy and a sprinkling of visual jokes, but lightly peppered with little promises of good things to come . . .

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Candy Guard established her reputation for comic observation and witty dialogue with thirteen animated shorts for Channel 4, MTV and the BBC. Alongside a highly successful strip cartoon in the Observer magazine, Candy created Pond Life, an animated sitcom for Channel 4 that won numerous awards and both critical and popular acclaim. Just a Little Disco on an Open-Top Bus is her first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141023236
• ISBN 13: 9780141023236
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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