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Beschreibung
A story about mislaid umbrellas, questionable scientific theories and unlikely friendship - from the author of Flake, winner of the 2020 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse PrizeWhere do all the lost things go? In Dobbiston, they'll likely end up in the care of Mr Daniels, the long-time custodian of the local lost property office. Somewhere deep in the bowels of the town council's shabby premises he has spent a lifetime quietly cataloguing the carelessness of his fellow Dobbiston residents. But when something unexpected interrupts his routine, Mr Daniels is forced to embrace a little bit of life's chaos. Told through Lost Property Office vignettes - a snooker cue love story, a granny's tea cosy and a kid's toy on an intergalactic adventure - local histories are elevated to the momentous and profound, drawn with playful nostalgia and Dooley's deadpan wit. PRAISE FOR FLAKE 'A joy... think of Joff Winterhart with a cone and a squirt of strawberry sauce' Herald Scotland'(A) wonderful, elegiac debut... full of irresistible puns' Observer'A cheerfully nostalgic trip into a north western english town of pub quizzes, crazy golf and crosswords' Guardian
A story about mislaid umbrellas, questionable scientific theories and unlikely friendship - from the author of Flake, winner of the 2020 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse PrizeWhere do all the lost things go? In Dobbiston, they'll likely end up in the care of Mr Daniels, the long-time custodian of the local lost property office. Somewhere deep in the bowels of the town council's shabby premises he has spent a lifetime quietly cataloguing the carelessness of his fellow Dobbiston residents. But when something unexpected interrupts his routine, Mr Daniels is forced to embrace a little bit of life's chaos. Told through Lost Property Office vignettes - a snooker cue love story, a granny's tea cosy and a kid's toy on an intergalactic adventure - local histories are elevated to the momentous and profound, drawn with playful nostalgia and Dooley's deadpan wit. PRAISE FOR FLAKE 'A joy... think of Joff Winterhart with a cone and a squirt of strawberry sauce' Herald Scotland'(A) wonderful, elegiac debut... full of irresistible puns' Observer'A cheerfully nostalgic trip into a north western english town of pub quizzes, crazy golf and crosswords' Guardian
Über den Autor

Matthew Dooley won the Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize and his debut FLAKE, published by Cape in 2020, went on to win the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize, the first time for a graphic novel. It was also a Guardian Book of the Year.

He is from the north-west of England and now lives in London.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781787333956
ISBN-10: 1787333957
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Dooley, Matthew
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 245 x 174 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Matthew Dooley
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.06.2025
Gewicht: 0,842 kg
Artikel-ID: 133357463

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