Art of Failing - Notes From the Underdog

Zusatztext ‘Consistently amusing! charming! and occasionally rather touching.’ Informationen zum Autor Anthony McGowan  is one of the most widely acclaimed young adult and children’s authors in the UK. His books have won numerous major awards .  In 2020, he was awarded the CILIP Carnegie Medal for  Lark.  He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with  Rook  and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for  Henry Tumour . His YA novel  The Knife that Killed Me  was made into a critically-lauded film in 2014. Anthony lives in London, with his wife, two children and dog.   Klappentext An Observer book of the year HAUNTED! By endless tiny humiliations. STRUGGLING! To resurrect the corpse of his literary career. ENSNARED! In a loving yet bamboozling marriage. A man at odds with the universe, Anthony McGowan stumbles from one improbable fiasco to the next. On the mean streets of West Hampstead he reflects upon all that is at the heart of life itself ¿ socks with holes, underwhelming packed lunches, broken washing machines, Kierkegaard, liver salts, British Library eccentricities and disapproving ladies on trains. In this chronicle of one man¿s daily failures and disappointments, McGowan can¿t help but speak his mind ¿ with cringeworthy and hilarious results. Zusammenfassung A laugh-out-loud chronicle of one man’s daily failures and disappointments

Product details

• Authors: Anthony McGowan, McGowan Anthony
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781786073549
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-354-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; HUMOR / General, FICTION / Humorous / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, HUMOR / Form / Anecdotes & Quotations, HUMOR / Topic / Marriage & Family, Humour, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs