Summary
NOW A SELL-OUT PLAY: OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR
The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big city. And it’s an important day for The Sopranos - Orla, Kylah, (Ra)Chell, Amanda Konky and Fionnula (the Cooler) - pub-crawling, shoplifting and body-piercing being the top priorities. Then it’s time to lose that competition - lose, because a nuclear sub has just anchored in the bay and, tonight, the Man Trap disco w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099268741 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099268744 |
| Author: | Alan Warner |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
In a spill of vivid and corruscating language… Alan Warner has emerged as a writer of great inventiveness
“In a spill of vivid and corruscating language… Alan Warner has emerged as a writer of great inventiveness” – Annie Proulx “Wonderful… humane, unique, a page-turner with a neat series of bombshells at the end” Daily Telegraph “Warner provides every nuance of the characters in a sustained tour de force… This is the most profound of Warner’s books. His sense of place and atmosphere remains extraordinarily intense” Guardian “Wonderful… Humane, unique, a page-turner with a neat series of bombshells at the end” Daily Telegraph “Wickedly funny… Warner can combine literary style with go-anywhere demotic humour… Like St Trinians with condoms and male nudity” Independent
Alan Warner
Alan Warner is the author of six other novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky (longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize), and The Deadman’s Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
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