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Moggerhanger : a novel / Alan Sillitoe ; with a preface by Ruth Fainlight.
- Title
- Moggerhanger : a novel / Alan Sillitoe ; with a preface by Ruth Fainlight.
- Author
- Sillitoe, Alan
- Publication
- New York : Seven Stories Press, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6037.I55 M55 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 510 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Moggerhanger by iconic British writer Alan Sillitoe is the third part in a trilogy and the first to be published here in America. Following from A Start in Life, and Life Goes On, it features Michael Cullen, who is now an aimless 40-year-old, a picaresque hero who always seems to end up in trouble. Having just left his job in advertising, he is employed by his old boss and gang-leader, Moggerhanger. From Nottingham, to London, to France and back, Cullen embarks on a series of journeys (most of them in a Rolls Royce) doing "jobs" for Moggerhanger while meeting a cast of strange and wonderful characters on the way--ranging from Labrador dogs, crazed poets and endless women, to the members of the Green-Toe-Gang, rat catchers, brothel workers, and investigative journalists. Whilst on his adventures he is joined by his old friend and ex-mercenary soldier, Sergeant William Straw, and is constantly overlooked and entertained by his outrageous father, the famous writer Blaskin, and Blaskin's long-suffering girlfriend. A brilliantly funny and irreverent picaresque novel, Moggerhanger will, by turns, make you laugh, reel, sigh, and think again about the way we live our lives"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Picaresque literature
- Humorous fiction
- Satire.
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781609807238
- 1609807235
- LCCN
- ^^2016012124
- OCLC
- 930825068
- SCSB-12250398
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library