Welcome to the Heady Heights - Couverture souple

Ross, David F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912374617 ISBN 13 : 9781912374618

Editeur : Orenda Books, 2019

Synopsis

It's the year punk rock was born, Concorde entered commercial service and a tiny Romanian gymnast changed the sport forever. Archie Blunt is a man with big ideas. He just needs a break for them to be realised. In a bizarre brush with the light-entertainment business, Archie unwittingly saves the life of the UK's top showbiz star, Hank 'Heady' Hendricks', and now dreams of hitting the big-time as a Popular Music Impresario. Seizing the initiative, he creates a new singing group with five unruly working-class kids from Glasgow's East End. Together, they make the finals of a televised Saturday-night talent show, and before they know it, fame and fortune beckon for Archie and The High Five. But there's a complication; a trail of irate Glaswegian bookies, corrupt politicians and a determined Scottish WPC known as The Tank are all on his tail... A hilarious and poignant nod to the elusivity of stardom, in an age when 'making it' was 'having it all', Welcome to the Heady Heights is also a dark, laugh-out-loud comedy, a heart-warming tribute to a bygone age and a delicious drama about desperate men, connected by secrets and lies, by accidents of time and, most of all, the city they live in

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David F. Ross is an architect by day, and a hilarious social media commentator, author, and enabler by night. He is the author of The Last Days of Disco, The Rise & Fall of the Miraculous Vespas, and The Man Who Loved Islands.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Orenda Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912374617
• ISBN 13: 9781912374618
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible