The News Where You Are
Editorial VIKING
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial VIKING
- ISBN13 9780670918553
- ISBN10 0670918555
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 310
- Any Edició 2010
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Rústica
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Literatura AnglesaThe News Where You Are
Editorial VIKING
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
Set in Birmingham, The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances: the mysterious hit and run that killed his predecessor Phil Smethway; the demolition of his father's post-war brutalist architecture; and, the unmarked passing of those who die alone in the city. Frank struggles to make sense of these absences while having to report endless local news stories of holes opening up in people's gardens and trying to cope with his resolutely miserable mother. The result is that rare thing: a page-turning novel which asks the big questions in an accessible way, and is laugh-out-loud funny, genuinely moving and ultimately uplifting.