Staying Alive

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

From the bestelling author of ‘e’ comes a hilarious and moving novel of a very normal life becoming extraordinaryMurray’s living life to the full – and it might just kill him. He’s started telling the truth at work. He’s borrowed a stack of cash from a man with a gun, a speech impediment and no grasp whatsoever of APR. He’s also taking drugs and – God help him – he’s started dancing. Badly. To trance. And now he’s on the run with a human version of Muttley and a teenage girl called Fish.Which is strange, because a few weeks ago Murray didn’t even burn the candle at one end. But when his doctors tell him he has only months to live, he gives his boring old self the boot, relaunches a new, improved Murray and falls in love with a passion he didn’t know was in him.His old self, of course, would tell him he’s digging his own grave. But he’ll be needing one of those soon enough anyway, won’t he?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-05-23
Mått:129 x 198 x 29 mm
Vikt:320 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:448
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:9780007167036
Miljömärkning:Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.

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Matt Beaumont is a copywriter and has been fired by some of London’s leading ad agencies. He lives in North London with his wife and children.

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‘Beaumont is an unflaggingly funny writer with a great facility for teetering on the edge of credibility and coming down on the correct side’ Guardian‘A rip-roaringly funny read [from] the brilliant Matt Beaumont…full of colourful characters and cinematic scenes…A brilliant read’ HeatPraise for THE BOOK, THE FILM, THE T-SHIRT‘Beaumont is the sort of writer you wish would knock books out quicker.' Closer‘Beaumont…is a technical whiz at his craft…He succeeds. Humour, feelgood factor, mild suspense…it is one airport novel that is definitely designed to take off’ Guardian‘Delicious knockabout comedy…this is funnier [than e]’ Bookseller‘Toe-curlingly good…makes you laugh out loud’ Campaign‘It’s very funny from first to last. Infectiously enjoyable and energetic’ Time OutPraise for ‘e’‘A brilliantly plotted comic novel…it gave me more sense that literature is alive and kicking than anything else I’ve read in these 12 months’ Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times Review of the Year‘Lively, viciously funny and about as switched on as a novel can be’ Mirror‘Hilarious’ Cosmopolitan