Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier - Couverture souple

Darlington, Terry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0593067681 ISBN 13 : 9780593067680

Editeur : Bantam Press, 2012

Synopsis

A devastating fire prompts the bestselling author of Narrow Dog to Carcassonne to go on a meandering and very funny canal journey north and to look back over his remarkable life...

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

TERRY DARLINGTON was an athlete and a businessman before becoming a writer. Like many Welshmen, he is ill at ease with practical matters and known to linger in public houses. He likes boating, but is not very good at it.

MONICA DARLINGTON was beauty queen of Brecon and Radnor, has a first-class degree, has run thirty marathons, and leaps tall buildings with a single bound. She quite likes boating.

JIM is sprung from a long line of whippets with ridiculous names. He is cowardly, thieving, and disrespectful and hates boating.

JESS is a rescue whippet. She is affectionate but three parts wild. She really really hates boating.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

At seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including building a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society. Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer.

In their Midlands canal town in November, life was looking dull and short on surprises.

Then their famous canal boat was destroyed by fire. Within a few days they had bought a new one and they headed north in the Phyllis May 2 - to Liverpool, Lancaster, York, the Pennines and Wigan Pier. Terry recorded the journey and alongside it the story of his life and his marriage and his whippet Jim, with his broken ear like a flat cap, and Monica's whippet Jess, the Flying Catastrophe.

Another classic Narrow Dog book, this gloriously funny, affecting and beautifully told story brims with canals and rivers and whippets, and adventures all over the world, and the famous and fascinating people the Darlingtons have met.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593067681
• ISBN 13: 9780593067680
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible