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I Left My Tent in San Francisco
Emma Kennedy
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Description for I Left My Tent in San Francisco
Paperback. It's 1989, and the author and her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's. This title tells the story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's.
Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape to scrape, surviving on their wits and the kindness of strangers. Bad luck and misfortune throw everything their way - snakes, earthquakes, black magic and incontinent dogs. They even get kidnapped by a sex-crazed midget in a Ferrari. This never happened to Jack Kerouac.
A startlingly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091935962
SKU
V9780091935962
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About Emma Kennedy
Emma Kennedy is a bestselling author, TV writer, actress and presenter. She has written ten books including her bestselling memoirs, The Tent the Bucket and Me and I Left My Tent in San Francisco. She wrote the Wilma Tenderfoot series for children and has also adapted The Tent the Bucket and Me for the BBC, renamed The Kennedys. The Time ... Read more
Reviews for I Left My Tent in San Francisco
I love her writing
Jon Ronson
Hilarious
Heat
The female Bill Bryson... a very funny read... brilliant.
Christian O'Connell
Radio Five Live
Jon Ronson
Hilarious
Heat
The female Bill Bryson... a very funny read... brilliant.
Christian O'Connell
Radio Five Live