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Loading... My Little Armaliteby James Hawes
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I picked this up in my local library. I think I was taken in by the cover, really - mustn't judge books by that! I thought it would be interesting, but didn't find it so at all. I struggled badly to read even a few pages. Overly dense, and boring really. I don't usually like first-person in-depth narratives, so I suppose this is not a surprise. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Set in the world that he has made his own - that of middle-class Englishmen struggling with the mortgage, low self-esteem and dreams of sash windows - this is Hawes at his sharpest and funniest. John Goode is a leftie lecturer who just wants to give his beloved wife and kids a normal life. You know- north London, good schools, nice neighbours, sash windows... yes, you know. But who can afford that kind of normal these days?Goode can only daydream of becoming a television academic, or else of a bloody great economic crash that would make his job worth something again. So when he stumbles on a long-buried assault rifle whilst planting plum-trees for his children, he soon begins to wonder if this might be just the tool to seriously renegociate his family's future... No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 2000-LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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