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paperback. Twenty-nine-year-old Lewis, caught between working at a recruitment agency, helping his father out in the barbers and keeping his mother in touch with world news. But when he receives an email from Christy, an old school friend, he is intrigued by her society for Hope for Newborns. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 328.
Twenty-nine-year-old Lewis' family are the definition of dysfunctional: his brothers, living estranged and unknown lives in Texas and Toronto, his mother, confined in her self-imposed silent state in a room full of fish and amphibians and his father, at work in the Victory Barber Shop where customers are surrounded by souvenirs of wartime Europe. And Lewis, caught between working at a recruitment agency, helping his father out in the barbers and keeping his mother in touch with world news. But when he receives an email out of the blue from Christy, an old school friend, he is intrigued by her ... Read more
Twenty-nine-year-old Lewis' family are the definition of dysfunctional: his brothers, living estranged and unknown lives in Texas and Toronto, his mother, confined in her self-imposed silent state in a room full of fish and amphibians and his father, at work in the Victory Barber Shop where customers are surrounded by souvenirs of wartime Europe. And Lewis, caught between working at a recruitment agency, helping his father out in the barbers and keeping his mother in touch with world news. But when he receives an email out of the blue from Christy, an old school friend, he is intrigued by her ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571238217
SKU
KNW0009929
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jane Smiley
Rodge Glass's first novel No Fireworks was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex Award, the Authors' Club award and longlisted for the inaugural Dylan Thomas award. He lives in Glasgow and is working on a biography of Alasdair Gray (Bloomsbury).
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