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Jill Mansell, unlike other writers in the rom-com arena, seems to get better with every book she writes. Thinking of You is her latest offering and proves that it is possible to get better with age!
Ginny Holland, a best selling author if left rattling around in her house on her own after daughter Jem goes to university. Lonely, she advertises her spare room for rent. Instead of a happy roommate, she gets moaning Laurel who is still hung up on her ex-boyfriend. If that wasn’t enough, Ginny finds herself lusting after two men who can only be bad for her. Will Ginny get the man of her dreams, or will he be the one that gets away?
Mansell has a disarming ability to create characters that you already know and that tends to make her books impossible to put down. This book is no different. It is charmingly written, hopelessly funny and will make you forget all of your own troubles as soon as you read the first page.
(ISBN: 0755328116, ISBN-13: 9780755328116)
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Title: Gas Station (My Ground Trilogy 1)
Author: Joseph Torra
ISBN: 0575068035
EAN: 9780575068032
New Ed. Edition
144 Pages
Publisher: Nicolson
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 1999-09-09
Author: Joseph Torra
ISBN: 0575068035
EAN: 9780575068032
New Ed. Edition
144 Pages
Publisher: Nicolson
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 1999-09-09
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As Jimi Hendrix and Vietnam rumble on in the background, an Italian-American teenage boy grows up working in his dad's gas station in Massachusetts. In a world full of rear end fluid, floor jacks and leaky gaskets, the narrator is awkward with his father and not too hot at mounting snow tires or dismantling engines. Poetic, poignant, and beautifully observed -- the grease and grime of the gas station, the rhythms of work and talk, are detailed with such precision that the locality becomes universal -- Joseph Torra has written an extraordinary and superb coming-of-age novel in the great American blue-collar tradition, and one which has echoes of another working-class son of Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac.
As Jimi Hendrix and Vietnam rumble on in the background, an Italian-American teenage boy grows up working in his dad's gas station in Massachusetts. In a world full of rear end fluid, floor jacks and leaky gaskets, the narrator is awkward with his father and not too hot at mounting snow tires or dismantling engines. Poetic, poignant, and beautifully observed -- the grease and grime of the gas station, the rhythms of work and talk, are detailed with such precision that the locality becomes universal -- Joseph Torra has written an extraordinary and superb coming-of-age novel in the great American blue-collar tradition, and one which has echoes of another working-class son of Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac.
Joseph Torra has published a collection of poetry, Keep Watching the Sky, and edits a journal of poetry and essays, lift.
2001-11-01 An excellent, short book. Like On The Road? You'll like this
At first it is a difficult book to read as Torra uses very little punctuation but then you realise that you yave to read it like Boomhauer from 'King Of The Hill' and then punctuation is not required! It is an excellent book, really funny and spot on for a 14 year old kid stuck in small town America in the 60's having to work in his pop's gas station with only pornographic literature for company, while the rest of the world is enjoying life. You can almost smell the rancid engine oil while you read it. A short story that any poor reader can finish in a couple of days and a good one in hours but you will want to read again and again.similar books
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