Touching Wood: The Woman's Complete Guide to the Kid Inside Their Man - Couverture souple

Neilson, MR Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1499251327 ISBN 13 : 9781499251326

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

A perceptive and humorous look at surviving adolescence. Set in the late 1970’s, it follows four boys’ lives, whose families struggle to stay nuclear. When four boys are growing up, they normally look to their family for support and encouragement. But if your dad is an alcoholic; or your mum is neurotic; or your friend’s dad shows you a bit too much attention, while the rest of the world just ignores you; you tend to just find your own way. In the wake of punk and in the foreboding quiet before Thatcher, a generation comes to terms with the ever present threat of nuclear destruction and invasion by Soviet forces. All this whilst suffering school, hair growth, musical revolution and its subsequent dilution, the conquering of girl-kind and conkers. “Touching Wood” is the story of Martin, Billy, Noel and Robert as they scrape their way out of boyhood into adolescence. The boys use football, comics, dirty magazines, graffiti and hearsay to navigate through the minefield of growing up. They fail with drinking, smoking and girls, but end up finding more strength in their own circle than in those around them.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Neilson was born in North Yorkshire at the end of the 1960's. He spent the first decade of his life moving from Yorkshire, to Germany, to Liverpool, to Dorset, and finally to Birmingham where his family remained. Neilson studied Live Art, Composition and Screen-writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, completing four full-length screen-plays there. After graduation Neilson was quickly picked up by a production company based at Shepperton Studios, where he worked on a screenplay for television. Due to legal disputes, the project had to be shelved, leaving Neilson to begin working on his first novel; "Touching Wood". It was completed and published in early 2012. He is now working on Parts 2 and 3 of the series: "Touching Ground" and "Touched".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1499251327
• ISBN 13: 9781499251326
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne