Speak For England

Name: Speak For England
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: James Hawes
ISBN: 9780099470175

James Hawes

02/03/2006
Vintage

NC (0 avis)

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Résumé

Revue de presse Amusing and intelligent throughout...The tone of the narrative is pitch-perfect ― ObserverA comic novelist of considerable stature...An assured, clever, raffishly inventive work ― GuardianDeliciously entertaining ― Independent on SundayThe writing is so sharp and waspish that comparisons with Evelyn Waugh are not misplaced ― Sunday TelegraphConsistently inventive and entertaining ― Daily Mail Présentation de l'éditeur Brian Marley, a divorced Englishman, is alone in the vilest jungle on earth, about to die live on television. A contestant on Brit Pluck, Green Hell, Two Million, the ultimate reality TV show, Marley has managed to outlive his rivals and win enough money to change his life. Except that the TV crew has just been wiped out in a helicopter crash. With the crocodiles closing in, he has no option but to climb the vast cliff at his back. Inevitably, he falls......And awakes in a lost world that is remarkably like an Englishman's heaven. There's cricket and rugger, the Union Jack, plucky boys, pretty girls, a tough but fair headmaster - an entire miniature civilization preserved by the surviving passengers from Comet IV, which vanished in 1958. Firmly convinced that they were the first casualties of World War III, they have kept an idyllic, pre-sixties England alive. When Brian contacts the outside world, the Headmaster is outraged to find an embattled New Labour MP unchallenged by a hapless Tory Party. With 50s conviction, he sets about restoring the values of the Eagle to England. Biographie de l'auteur James Hawes is the author of six novels, including White Powder, Green Light and My Little Armalite. He lives in Cardiff.