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Item Details
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SPANISH FLY
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| By: |
Will Ferguson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846551250 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846551253 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
3 January, 2008 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
When a pair of swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack McGreary joins them. Together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest, staging a series of elaborate and often hilarious cons. Jack is swept along into a world of hot jazz and cold calculating crimes of the heart. Someone is being set up. But who? |
| Synopsis: |
Will Ferguson takes us on a wild romp across the dust bowl of West Texas. The year is 1939. The world is on the brink of war, and the American Dream is rusting out from the inside. Jack McGreary is adrift in the faded boomtown of Paradise Flats. Raised by his eccentric and increasingly erratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. He outsmarts the local businessmen, out-argues the local priest, and even outplays a gang of hardened carnies at a seedy fairground. And when a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them. Together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest, staging a series of elaborate and often hilarious cons. Young Jack is swept along into a world of hot jazz and cold calculating crimes of the heart, as the sexual tension between him and Miss Rose comes to a boil. Someone is being set up. Are Miss Rose and Virgil playing Jack? Or is Jack playing them? |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Harvill Secker |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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