Naw Much of a Talker - Softcover

Lenz, Pedro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908754222 ISBN 13: 9781908754226

Verlag: Freight Books, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

An award-winning comic novel about truth, lies, and storytelling, with an unforgettably unreliable narrator, translated from its innovative Swiss vernacular back into the Glaswegian that was its original inspiration

Known only as "the goalie," the novel's narrator is always taking the blame. He's just been released from jail, having kept quiet during a drug bust at his local pub. The goalie is a sucker for a good story, he lives and breathes them, is forever telling stories to himself and anyone who'll listen. He returns to his hometown broke, falling in love with Regi, a barmaid. On a trip together to Spain, to hook up with his shady friends, Regi realizes that this obsession with storytelling has its downsides, the goalie all too ready to believe the yarns his so-called friends spin. This novel is a charming, hilarious tour through the goalie's anecdotes. Storytelling is his way of avoiding problems and conflict, his crowning achievement and tragic flaw. Regi concludes that it isn't a woman the goalie needs, but an audience. Pedro Lenz harnesses his considerable powers as a performer and oral storyteller in this powerful and unforgettable celebration of the rhythms and musicality of the spoken word.

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Pedro Lenz is an award-winning spoken word artist. He was nominated for the Swiss Book Prize and won the Berne Literature Prize for Naw Much of a Talker, originally published as Der Goalie bin ig, which is also to be made into a film.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Freight Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908754222
• ISBN 13: 9781908754226
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 155
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