News Where You Are
od O´Flynn, C. z vydavateľstva Penguin Group UK 2010
Autor: | O´Flynn, C. |
Vydavateľstvo: | Penguin Group UK |
Rok vydania: | 2010 |
EAN: | 9780141046365 |
Počet strán: | 320 |
Typ tovaru: | Brožovaná väzba |
Viac o knihe News Where You Are (O´Flynn, C.)
Catherine O'Flynn, author of the Man Booker prize winning What Was Lost offers a 'funny, moving, acutely observed story about family and loss' in The News Where You Are. Frank Allcroft, a regional TV news presenter, has just had a ratings boost. His puns, a website declares, makes him 'the unfunniest man on God's Earth'. Mortified colleagues wonder how he stands being a public joke. But Frank doesn't mind. As long as Andrea and Mo, his wife and eight-year-old daughter, are happy, who gives a stuff what others think? Besides, Frank has a couple of other matters on his mind. He has taken to investigating the death of Phil, his (actually quite funny) predecessor, killed in a mysterious hit and run six months ago. Also, he's telling Mo about the architect grandfather she never met by taking her to see vanished and soon-to-be-vanished buildings. Because Frank knows that it is between what we see and what we can't, what has gone and what's left behind, that the answers lie. . . Very funny, warm and moving, The New Where You Are is a story of family, friendship and trying to reconnect with the past before it is gone.