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Genre/Form: | Detective and mystery stories Humorous fiction Detective and mystery fiction Fiction Mystery fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian Sansom |
ISBN: | 9780060822507 0060822503 9780007206995 0007206992 |
OCLC Number: | 77516774 |
Description: | 336 pages ; 21 cm |
Responsibility: | Ian Sansom. |
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REVIEWS FOR RING ROAD:'A Tristram Shandy for our times... The tone is part elegy, part satire, part howl and very, very funny. I laughed more times than I can remember over a novel for years ... Ring Road is well-observed and endlessly inventive, with all the messiness of a real place. Sansom's deadpan voice throws up jokes on every page.'Observer 'Calls to mind two other outstanding novels: Tristram Shandy...and Joseph Heller's Catch-22... One of those rare books that, once picked up, proves very difficult to put down.'The Irish Independent 'Wonderfully vivid, easy, natural, funny and moving.'Oliver Sacks 'A wonderfully comic novel.'Daily Mail 'It reminds me most of Jerome K. Jerome... Mellow, intelligent and very funny, a perfect antidote for melancholy.'Michael Moorcock, Guardian 'There is something fearless in the gaze Sansom turns on banality, and this novel is, in the end, a surprisingly gripping feat of coming to terms with what ordinary life is like.' TLS Read more...
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