Various Pets Alive and Dead

Marcus and Doro were part of a left wing commune from the late 1960s until the early 1990s: lentils, free love, spliffs, Left politics, cheesecloth blouses, sex, housework and cooking rotas, crochet, allotments. Their children have grown up rather different from them: primary schoolteacher Clara craves order and clean bathrooms, son Serge is pretending to his parents that he is still doing a Maths PhD at Cambridge, while in fact working making loadsa money in the City; third child Oolie Anna, who has Downs Syndrome, is desperate to escape home and live on her own. Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches, poodles, a Chicken and multiplying rabbits, told by Marina Lewycka in her unique and brilliant combination of irony, farce and wit.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Lewycka
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9781905490912
• ISBN: 978-1-905490-91-2
• No. of pages: 367
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 27 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature