Antony J. Stowers

Voyager - Part two

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Loosely based on 'Down and out in Paris and London' by George Orwell, part two of 'Voyager' takes us back to the first decade of the new century when not-so-young, not-so-naive, far less gullible and realistic pragmatist, but forever secret palindromist ,Johnny Regayov, with some education and hard life experience under his belt, quits his northern home town once again and and heads south, this time for Paris, hungry for a more fulfilling life denied to him in London. There, though he claws back some dignity in teaching, it seems trouble is forever at his heels as he does battle with both the ghosts of his past and the challenges of the present day. Aided and abetted by the ghost of his dead friend Malcolm and living friend and street hustler Claude, he still finds himself skating, sliding, slipping and sometimes breaking the ice and falling but this time he plays his cards close to his chest when he meets free-spirited American Helen Van Dyke and plays a mean hand when they both throw in their lot with Paris and take to the road . . .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9781470939540
• ISBN-10: 1470939541
• Artikelnr.: 67154463

Autorenporträt

Darlington for Culture Review This is the story of an ordinary boy from an ordinary working-class family in an ordinary northern town. If that sounds ordinary, it's not!Jethro Anson Nowsty was born and brought up in Darlington and we follow his life from his very earliest memories up to his approaching adulthood. This mixed-up kid was born in the early 1960s and the author describes everyday life as it was then - warts 'n' all. The music, food, transport, housing and entertainment of the 1960s and 1970s are all brought into clear focus in a series of short stories. Instead of a strictly chronological order, the author goes back and forth through the years writing in a way that draws the reader back in time to when a computer filled a whole room and dialling a phone number took longer than the call itself. All of this is interwoven with national and international news and the background to all of these stories is Darlington. All the landmark buildings, roads and parks, shops and schools are mentioned and described. It's a history of a special time in a special town, told with humour and affection through the eyes of a special 'mixed-up kid'.'