In This Block There Lives a Slag . . .

分類: 图书,进口原版书,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),
品牌: Broady
基本信息·出版社:HARPERCOLLINS UK
·页码:256 页
·出版日期:2008年07月
·ISBN:0007292902
·International Standard Book Number:0007292902
·条形码:9780007292905
·EAN:9780007292905
·装帧:平装
·正文语种:英语
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内容简介In the title story of this sharp, clever collection of short stories, an odd-job man arrives home to his Bradford council block to find a message waiting for one of its inhabitants--in ten-foot-high letters. With his white van and set of ladders, he's the chief suspect. But who is the mysterious Slag that has the whole street gossiping; and who has she hurt? In "Wrestling Jacob," a lusty academic takes out his frustrations down on the farm every weekend, sparring with a fierce, strangely human ram. It's hard work being beaten up by a sheep, but he soon realizes that his girlfriends love to see him wrestle Jacob. And in "Coddock," there's a bold new chipshop owner in town. But who is he? And what do you get if you cross a cod with a haddock, anyway? From the backstreets of Bradford to dingy moorland pubs with ten-year-old jukeboxes, Bill Broady's bright new stories give Yorkshire a lick of new paint, with all of the searingly precise prose, wit, and energy of his highly acclaimed first novel, "Swimmer."