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Jon McGregor - This Isn´t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You - 9781408809266 - KEX0303103
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This Isn´t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You

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Description for This Isn´t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You Hardback. Very good copy .First edition. Signed by the author
A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. A pair of itinerant labourers sit by a lake, talking about shovels and sex, while fighter-planes fly low overhead and prepare for war. These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do. Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate, dangerous, ... Read more

Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408809266
SKU
KEX0303103
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor is the author of the critically acclaimed If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, So Many Ways to Begin and Even the Dogs. He is the winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was runner-up for the BBC ... Read more

Reviews for This Isn´t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You
Jon McGregor's stories are strange and lovely masterpieces: painfully authentic, inquisitive rather than confrontational, he has a tremendous ability to disturb the surface of everyday things. In this collection the vast skies and silts of the Lincolnshire fens are sensually evoked and the austerely beautiful landscape exposes the most intimate details of his characters' lives; their secrets, their crimes and ... Read more

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