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Description for Blast from the Past
Paperback. It's 2.15a.m. and the phone rings. The protagonist of this tale is lying awake, listening to the sound of his own voice on the answer machine informing the caller that there is no one there and thinking that only someone with bad news would ring at this time of night. He is right, it is a blast from the past. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone.
Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong.
Only someone bad would call at such an hour. Or someone good, but with bad news, which would probably be worse.
You lie there in the darkness and wait for the answer machine to kick in. Your own voice sounds strange as it tells you that ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552998338
SKU
KTM0005661
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ben Elton
Ben Elton’s multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He ... Read more
Reviews for Blast from the Past
Only Ben Elton could combine uncomfortable questions about gender politics with a gripping, page-turning narrative and jokes that make you laugh out loud
Tony Parsons, author of Man and Boy Elton at his most outrageously entertaining
Cosmopolitan
The action is tight and well-plotted, the dialogue is punchy, and the whole thing rolls along so nicely
Guardian ... Read more
Tony Parsons, author of Man and Boy Elton at his most outrageously entertaining
Cosmopolitan
The action is tight and well-plotted, the dialogue is punchy, and the whole thing rolls along so nicely
Guardian ... Read more