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Beschreibung
After the scandalous theft of a pub's World Cup cash kitty a homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle: 'The Man Who Walks' up into the Highlands to recover the money - a cool -27 000. The nephew's frantic stalled progress and other bizarre diversions form this wickedly hilarious novel. But who is The Man Who Walks? Is he simply a water-carrying madman with one glass eye and a fondness for whisky and pony nuts and who has a physiological inability to handle slopes? Or is he a savant touched by the hand of God wandering the back roads along ancient ancestral tracks? And as the sinister unstable nephew gains on The Man Who Walks can it be that it will all end in a field and that this field is Culloden Moor?
After the scandalous theft of a pub's World Cup cash kitty a homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle: 'The Man Who Walks' up into the Highlands to recover the money - a cool -27 000. The nephew's frantic stalled progress and other bizarre diversions form this wickedly hilarious novel. But who is The Man Who Walks? Is he simply a water-carrying madman with one glass eye and a fondness for whisky and pony nuts and who has a physiological inability to handle slopes? Or is he a savant touched by the hand of God wandering the back roads along ancient ancestral tracks? And as the sinister unstable nephew gains on The Man Who Walks can it be that it will all end in a field and that this field is Culloden Moor?
Über den Autor
Alan Warner is the author of eight novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, The Deadman's Pedal and Their Lips Talk of Mischief. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781784707125
ISBN-10: 1784707120
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Warner, Alan
Hersteller: Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Alan Warner
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2017
Gewicht: 0,367 kg
Artikel-ID: 134471890