Shortlisted for the recent major literary award, the Man Booker prize 2004, the second novel to follow the lives of the dysfunctional Joneses, most of whom are alcoholics. A light, easy-flowing, humorous style takes us through a sad, but not portrayed as tragic, tale. Quite brilliant – unputdownable and highly impressive.
Comparison: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, A L Kennedy, Julian Barnes.
Similar this month: Nicola Barker, David Lodge.
Colette Jones has had drink problems in the past, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job behind the counter in a builders' merchants, and his drinking sprees with his brother-in-law Bill, a pseudo-Marxist supermarket butcher who seems to see alcohol as central to the proletarian revolution, have started to land him in trouble with the police.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
Colette Jones has had drink problems in the past, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job behind the counter in a builders' merchants, and his drinking sprees with his brother-in-law Bill, a pseudo-Marxist supermarket butcher who seems to see alcohol as central to the proletarian revolution, have started to land him in trouble with the police.
I'll Go To Bed At Noon features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction
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I'll Go To Bed At Noon was written by Gerard Woodward and published by Vintage
I'll Go To Bed At Noon has 437 pages
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