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A dip-into book for the bedside table, the beach or the morning train. A collection of travel and expat living experiences, observations of diverse characters, many of them unusual, many of them stubborn or eccentric and yet lovable. A book of alternative definitions and hilarious jots - eg. 'You have no idea how much it cost to keep the old man in poverty' - Mountbatten talking about Gandhi, or, 'Two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm' Thomas Beecham commenting on the harpsichord. Much more seriously, a book describing the unnecessary hardship and oppression suffered by the ordinary people of Iraq during the 'era' of Saddam Hussein, and the murderous acts of an army captain on the last day of Iraqi occupation in Kuwait.
A propos de l'auteur
John Flanagan emigrated to the United States in the mid-1950s. He served for three years in the US Army. He was stationed near Paris, where he was a correspondent for the Starts and Stripes, a tabloid newspaper for the military. He later returned to Ireland, where he studied English language and literature in Trinity College, Dublin. He earned a certificate to teach from the Alpha College of English. For his short story The Glazier's Apprentice, Flanagan won the Hennessey Literary Award. He recently published Shay Elliot and Collected Short Stories.
