Billy Liar on the Moon
Author | : Keith Waterhouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Keith Waterhouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Keith Waterhouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-02-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781941147542 |
In this sequel to Waterhouse's Billy Liar, Billy Fisher may be thirty-three but still hasn't grown out of his propensity for lying. Stuck in a loveless marriage in a dismal town, where he has a dead-end job in local government, Billy seeks escape through his affair with Helen, who is also unhappily married. But once again he finds himself in danger of being undone by his lies: vodka martinis charged to his expense account, a wise-cracking alter ego named Oscar, a false police report about a stolen set of nonexistent golf clubs, an imaginary cat named 'Mr Pussy-paws' . . . Now the all-important town festival is approaching, but instead of doing the planning, Billy is busy trying to keep ahead of the suspicions of his wife, the police, and Helen's jealous husband.
Author | : Keith Waterhouse |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0241973643 |
The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand plans for his future and fantastical day-dreams of the fictional country Ambrosia.
Author | : Keith Waterhouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Keith Waterhouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780140174281 |
'Buy, borrow or beg Keith Waterhouse's outstanding new novel. I can't recommend it too highly. Waterhouse has an uncanny gift for recapturing every attitude, agony and phrase of childhood and youth.' - "Daily Mirror" 'I wished I'd written Keith Waterhouse's first novel; and now, even more, I wish I'd written his second . . . "Billy Liar" is very funny: funny in a wild and sardonic and high-spirited way without malice or cruelty.' - John Braine, author of "Room at the Top" 'A brilliant novel, in language fresh and sweet, with characters vivid and singular in an inventive and dynamic story. It teems, it bursts with originality.' - "Saturday Review" 'Extremely funny . . . its lambent humour, quick-changing from robust to the delicate, is always fresh . . . should gladden the hearts of even the most exacting readers.' - "Daily Telegraph" Billy Fisher feels trapped by his working-class parents, his unfulfilling job as an undertaker's clerk, and his life in a dull, provincial town. His only refuge is in his daydreams, where he is the leader of the country of Ambrosia. Unfortunately, Billy's wild imagination leads him to tell lies constantly: to his parents, his employer, and his three girlfriends. On one tragi-comic Saturday, as Billy plots his escape to a life of adventure and excitement in London, all his lies finally catch up with him, with hilarious and disastrous results. A smash bestseller and one of the great comic novels of the 20th century, "Billy Liar" (1959) inspired an award-winning film, a play, a musical, a television series, and a sequel. This edition marks the novel's first publication in America in more than fifty years and includes a new introduction by Nick Bentley and a reproduction of the original jacket art by William Belcher.
Author | : Mark Arsenault |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429985194 |
From the Shamus Award nominee of Spiked comes this much-anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed Gravewriter In this next electifying thriller from up-and-coming author Mark Arsenault, former journalist and beaten-down gambler Billy Povich returns to aid Martin Smothers, the Patron Lawyer of Hopeless Causes. Martin's old law partner, the well-respected superior court judge Gilbert Harmony, has been shot by a thief who dies in a car crash. The cops close the case, but Martin doesn't believe a two-bit shoplifter would suddenly kill a judge---somebody must have paid him to do it. The suspects range from a vengeful mobster to a jealous brother to the judge's widow, and---oops---his mistress and her son. And as Billy comes closer to the truth, it isn't long before the killer takes aim at him.
Author | : Keith Waterhouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : England, Northern |
ISBN | : |
This novel tells of the events of a few weeks in the life of a small boy on a north county council estate and the rhubarb fields, quarries and Clerk of Works yard that are his playground. Unlike most boys portrayed in fiction he is not an ultrasensitive soul but an ordinary boy, occasionally cowardly, sometimes a liar, tough in his own eyes and often insecure in his dealings with others.
Author | : Rodman Philbrick |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545303877 |
This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off an unlikely quest to save his dying sister -- and in the process, perhaps the world.
Author | : Waterhouse |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric Carle |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2016-11-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524739553 |
The all-time classic picture book, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! Have you shared it with a child or grandchild in your life? For the first time, Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar is now available in e-book format, perfect for storytime anywhere. As an added bonus, it includes read-aloud audio of Eric Carle reading his classic story. This fine audio production pairs perfectly with the classic story, and it makes for a fantastic new way to encounter this famous, famished caterpillar.