Mister Roberts
On sale
3rd September 2009
Price: £9.99
Above a small village in Spain, an English costume designer sees a bright shining star lurch abruptly across the sky. On Christmas Day a strong, silent man with blank eyes enters Bar Noche Azul. Only a thirteen year old boy could have guessed that there was any connection between the two.
Wonderfully inventive, darkly funny and thoughtful, MISTER ROBERTS is both an original coming-of-age story and an unusual take on the corrupting influence of power.
Wonderfully inventive, darkly funny and thoughtful, MISTER ROBERTS is both an original coming-of-age story and an unusual take on the corrupting influence of power.
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Reviews
'Ridiculously entertaining'
'A deliciously barmy, yet affecting cautionary tale...the considered, pitch-perfect prose of a talented novelist who also happens to have a wildly perverse imagination, and a store of beautifully delivered one-liners.'
Among the very few comedians to write fiction which can be taken seriously as literature . . . It's also extremely funny.
Brains, wit and welcome absurdity...there is also a surprising amount of warmth
'Full of inventive comedy'
Hilariously bonkers