Underneath - Couverture souple

Hayes, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1838465316 ISBN 13 : 9781838465315

Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2021

Synopsis

Martin Hayes’ third Smokestack collection is a hymn to the invisible workers everywhere who hold up the sky – specifically the couriers and support staff who have been working 15-hours a day to distribute PPE and test kits up and down the UK. Underneathis a brutally funny collection about work, comradeship and community, the deals we do to stay human in the dehumanising conditions of the twenty-first century, the years we exchange for a fridge full of food, a well-stocked medicine cabinet and the chance to swim in the sea once a year. It’s a book about work-mates and neighbours, warnings and redundancies, managers with their ‘Moray eel smiles’ and the alien rich who think that the world belongs to them. Martin Hayes gives a voice to everyone at the bottom of the pile, below the salt, underneath, defiantly asserting that we are not defeated – at least not just yet.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Martin Hayes has lived in the Edgware Road area of London all of his life. He played schoolboy football for Arsenal and Orient, and cricket for Middlesex Colts. Asked to leave school when he was 15, he has worked as a leaflet distributor, accounts clerk, courier, telephonist, recruitment manager and a control room supervisor. His other books are Letting Loose the Hounds (2001), When We Were Almost Like Men (2015), Roar! (2018), The Things Our Hands Once Stood For (2018) and Ox (2021).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smokestack Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1838465316
• ISBN 13: 9781838465315
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
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• Personne responsable: non disponible