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The Truth About These Strange Times
Adam Foulds
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Description for The Truth About These Strange Times
Paperback. A brilliant, touching and funny debut about an extraordinary friendship, a kidnapping, memory championships and a Russian bride Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 334.
A brilliant, touching and funny debut about an extraordinary friendship, a kidnapping, memory championships and a Russian bride
Saul Dawson-Smith can memorise the sequence of a shuffled deck of cards in under a minute; he can recite pi to a thousand decimal places and he remembers every conversation he's ever had. He is ten years old.
Howard McNamee is twenty-eight: lonely, overweight and poorly educated. He lives far from the scene of his difficult Glasgow childhood, in the home he shared with his mother. Struggling to pay his rent with a succession of menial jobs, Howard comes home ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753824092
SKU
V9780753824092
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Ref
99-50
About Adam Foulds
Adam Foulds was born in 1974 and lives in South London. He read English at St. Catherine's, Oxford, has a Creative Writing MA from UEA and received the Harper-Wood fellowship from St. John's College, Cambridge. His poetry, praised by Christopher Reid and Craig Raine, has appeared in magazines such as Arete, Stand and Quadrant. He is the author ... Read more
Reviews for The Truth About These Strange Times
a winning and often very funny odd-couple caper
Andrew Holgate
SUNDAY TIMES
This is a novel bursting with incident, humour, humanity and literary promise
SUNDAY TIMES
Foulds has a fine turn of phrase
JEWISH CHRONICLE
A stylish debut novel of bittersweet humour
GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Andrew Holgate
SUNDAY TIMES
This is a novel bursting with incident, humour, humanity and literary promise
SUNDAY TIMES
Foulds has a fine turn of phrase
JEWISH CHRONICLE
A stylish debut novel of bittersweet humour
GOOD BOOK GUIDE