We Bought a Country Pub - Couverture rigide

MacKinnon, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0709017812 ISBN 13 : 9780709017813

Editeur : Robert Hale Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

After years spent travelling and working as a journalist in Central Africa, Alan Mackinnon looked forward to a more tranquil life as the new owner of a country pub in Scotland. But as this hilarious account of his tenure shows, there could be nothing more dangerous - than serving alcohol to the Galloway Irish. The locals very soon made plain their intention of running the pub. The barman was determined to drink his share of the profits, while the villagers insisted on acting out their extra- marital desires over the bar. The opposition wasted no time in organizing a smear campaign against the new village publican, and the author began to suspect that his predecessor had bribed the villagers to drink at his pub to impress the prospective buyer. The brewer's draymen were on the fiddle, the laird's wife demanded a say, the police expressed an interest in after hours drinking. Most traumatic of all was Mackinnon's discovery that the Galloway Irish are blood-relatives of the Appalachian hillbillies: when they go out on the town, they don't leave much of it standing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robert Hale Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0709017812
• ISBN 13: 9780709017813
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible