A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away
$37.08
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2003
Summary
Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they’d do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they’re having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them.
Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349116846 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349116849 |
| Author: | Christopher Brookmyre |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Angelique De Xavier |
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A bit like a literary computer game, this novel has plenty of verve and dash, with Brookmyre more in your face than a smack from an outraged lover whose bottom you’ve pinched. - IRISH TIMES
Brookmyre offers a brilliantly scathing portrayal of humanity… Sharply satirical and poignantly funny, this is a gripping and highly entertaining read. - TIME OUTHilarous, exhilerating entertainment. - GLASGOW HERALDHe really can write, with an exhilerating linguistic fluency and keenly subversive intelligence. - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYAbout The Author
Christopher Brookmyre
Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full time novelist with the publication of QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING. Since the first publication of A BIG BOY DID IT AND RAN AWAY, he and his family decided to move away from Aberdeen and now live near Glasgow. Oh, yes.
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