Second Life of Sally Mottram, Nobbs David

Автор: Nobbs, David
Название: It had to be you
ISBN: 0007286295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007286294
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Описание: Life after Deborah reaffirms Nobbs as the best writer of comedy and observer of the nuances of human nature that there is today.

Автор: Nobbs David
Название: Obstacles to Young Love
ISBN: 0007286287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007286287
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Описание: From one of the greatest comedic writers of a generation comes a story of love, faith and taxidermy.

Автор: Nobbs, David
Название: A Bit Of A Do
ISBN: 0007505779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007505777
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Описание: From the author of the Reginald Perrin series comes a classic tale of two families, one posher than the other, set in a Yorkshire town.

Автор: Nobbs, David
Название: Fair Do`S
ISBN: 0007505795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007505791
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Описание: The classic follow-up to A Bit of A Do, about the comedy of Yorkshire life, told through seven more do`s.

Автор: Nobbs, David
Название: Itinerant Lodger
ISBN: 0007427883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007427888
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One wintry afternoon a lodger named Wilson arrives at 38, Trebisall Avenue, filled with hope. As he crosses the threshold of Mrs Pollard's house, with its "aura of impending stew" he becomes a new man. This is a tactic he has tried before, just as he has tried many jobs before, from cook to seismographer's assistant. But alas, each time he was sacked because it was not his vocation. And so he has moved on, from town to town, from landlady to landlady: from Mrs McManus of Barnstaple, to Mrs McManus of Newport (I.O.W). Now, under the motherly eye of Mrs Pollard, he attempts a number of new vocations including those of poet and postman. Strange things befall him in the process: he is even tried and convicted for scandalous offences of which he has no recollection. But his progress continues, out through the end of this book, in search of a panacea for all mankind.

Автор: Nobbs, David
Название: Ostrich Country
ISBN: 0007427867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007427864
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' " A change of environment will bring you new business and personal interests," said Cousin Percy. Pegasus was glad to hear this.' Whether Pegasus Baines would have been so glad had he foreseen the outcome of his hasty decision to abandon the career of potential Nobel-prize winning nutrition scientist in favour of that world famous chef is less certain. The change of environment from North London with its deafening traffic to East Anglia with its menacing power stations brings new nightmares and new problems into his life.

The 'ostrich country' of David Nobbs' novel lies somewhere between modern Britain and cloud cuckoo-land. Pegasus Baines is an innocent idealist, a self-deceiver. The tale of his tangles which gradually involve mistresses old and new, long-suffering family and several more-or-less innocent bystanders, modulates from honours melancholy to hilarious farce.

Автор: Nobbs, David
Название: A Piece Of The Sky Is Missing
ISBN: 0007427840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007427840
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Why should up-and-coming, thirty-two-year-old executive Robert Bellamy get himself the sack? What made him draw a caricature of the Exports Manager on the wall of the non-executive gents? Why is he his own worst enemy?

Is it because he nearly ran away from boarding school on his third day or because, when he was fourteen, his mother developed a fatal friendship for a man who looked like Hitler? Does his sense of inadequacy stem from his once being mistaken for a draft of 350 men? Or from his failure long ago to do justice to the facilities at Mme Antoinette's Maison d'Amiti' (Paris branch)? Has he been too slow with Sonia, too fast with Frances?

Whatever the reason, one act of brinkmanship seems to lead to another. Robert finds himself involved in a series of embarrassing farewells and confusing interviews and open and shut court case as he drifts towards the prospect of a stiflingly happy Christmas and an intolerably cheerful New Year.