Facing the Tank
A carefully observed, comedic novel of cathedrals, clergy and genteel, country town living
$40.88
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2018
Summary
Patrick Gale’s early novel, FACING THE TANK is a witty, eccentric story of clergy, scandal and English eccentrics.
‘Made me laugh out loud’ Sunday Times
American Professor Evan Kirby, author of a successful book on Hell, moves to Barrowcester in the south England expecting to find the very epitome of a cathedral society of gentle clergymen and coffee mornings.
What he encounters instead is a small city thrown into chaos by scandalous pregnancies, a Satanic sum…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472255549 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472255542 |
| Author: | Patrick Gale |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Tinder Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 271g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Gale speedily unleashes his merrily black mischief. The uncovering of the sadness behind the doilies and twinsets is in the best tradition of black humour - Observer
Gale is intoxicated with words and feeds upon them with a kind of manic relish … The sheer funniness of Facing the Tank made me laugh out loud. Its optimism delighted me - Sunday TimesOriginal and amusing. An elegant, witty writer with an engagingly bizarre imagination - Sunday TelegraphAbout The Author
Patrick Gale
Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight and now lives on a farm near Land’s End. One of this country’s best-loved novelists, his most recent works are A Place Called Winter, Take Nothing With You and Mother’s Boy. His BBC ‘Queer Britannia’ television drama, Man In An Orange Shirt, was shown to great acclaim in 2017 and won an International Emmy Award.
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