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Life and Other Punctures
Anbieter: Crappy Old Books, Barry, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. There are travel books in which a writer sets off across Europe in search of landscape, culture, revelation and possibly a tax-deductible lunch. Then there is Eleanor Bron, who appears to have looked at France and Holland and thought: yes, but what if one encountered them by bicycle, thereby adding weather, discomfort, mechanical betrayal and the possibility of falling over into the intellectual experience? Life and Other Punctures is Bron?s wonderfully sideways account of a cycling journey, but naturally it is not only about cycling. Cycling is merely the excuse. The true subject is the human condition as experienced through saddles, roads, hotels, fellow travellers, aching limbs, punctures literal and social, and the strange comedy of trying to move purposefully through a world that keeps presenting small humiliations as if they were part of the itinerary. It is a travel book, a comic memoir, a sequence of observations, and possibly a warning that bicycles, like people, are elegant in theory and awkward in use. Eleanor Bron brings to the whole thing the dry, intelligent mischief one would expect from someone who has spent years making performance look effortless while presumably knowing exactly how much effort was being concealed. She has that very English gift for sounding composed while everything around her is becoming slightly ridiculous. A road is never just a road. A hotel is never merely a hotel. A conversation with a stranger may become a miniature opera of misunderstanding. A mechanical problem may begin as an inconvenience and end as a philosophical note on mortality, rubber, and the limits of optimism. The title is doing good work. Life does indeed puncture. Tyres puncture, plans puncture, dignity punctures, assumptions puncture, and occasionally one?s patience goes off with a hiss. The sensible response is probably to repair the damage and carry on, but the literary response is to notice the absurdity of having expected smooth progress in the first place. Bron?s book sits in that pleasing tradition of comic travel writing where the destination is less important than the mind being dragged towards it at uncertain speed. There is something especially satisfying about a late-1970s paperback travel narrative: small enough to fit in a bag, old enough to have escaped the age of ?content,? and written before every journey had to be turned into ten tips, six sponsored recommendations and a tragic little photograph of coffee. Here, travel still has room to be odd. You can get lost without an app correcting you. You can be annoyed in private. You can discover things without immediately rating them out of five. This Magnum paperback is in Good condition, which seems entirely proper for a book about bicycles and punctures. A pristine copy would feel suspicious, as though it had never been rained on by implication. This one has survived, remained readable, and not collapsed into the roadside hedge of history. Crappy Old Books offers it for anyone who likes clever comic memoirs, cycling done with more wit than Lycra, and journeys where the punctures are probably the point. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7091
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Life and Other Punctures
Verlag:
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1979
ISBN 10: 0417049005
ISBN 13: 9780417049007
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Anbieter: Sell Books, Elland, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers L-BIB00366-CHE-20230619-G
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Life and Other Punctures
Verlag:
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1979
ISBN 10: 0417049005
ISBN 13: 9780417049007
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paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Integral damage to binding e.g. cover coming away, no spine, chunks of pages falling out. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000080643
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