Downtrain
"Ocky Boxer picks the football team in the newsagents every Thursday. Mrs Ocky wants to pick Donny. Bernadetti runs an ice-cream van around the council estate and buys china dolls for the three women in his life. Miss Grey of Market Street collects wooden tea boxes. She is waiting for Terry to come home. Jim buys drinks for the new barmaid. He is a ladies' man. Angela and Tim meet again on a rain soaked station and share a cup of tea. He is still driving their old car. Jack is learning to read in the Ladybird room. Marianne's listening to Madame Crystal. She will be married in the summer. Geoff is travelling home on the downtrain." "People are the centre of the stories that illustrate Robert Nisbet's concern with the depth and variety of ordinary lives. People in these stories make their mark in the times of their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
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Ediciones (1)
- Downtrain (2004)
Parthian · inglés · ISBN 9781902638379
