Name: Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke von Peter Benson
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Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke Zusammenfassung

Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke Peter Benson

When young Elliot gets a labourer's job at Mr Evans's after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six of its sows, he thinks he'll have even more opportunities to lean on gates or stare at fields. But his best mate Spike keeps getting him into trouble, first by showing him what is being grown in a tucked-away polytunnel, and then turning up at his caravan's door with a van full of weed. As Elliot tries to help his friend get rid of the hot merchandise, they find themselves at the receiving end of a cruel cat-and-mouse game. A tale of adventure with as many twists and turns as the enchanting Somerset landscape that forms its backdrop, Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke is, above all, a celebration of the English countryside - full of magic, history and superstition - where smoke is in the air, and where not all is what it seems.

Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke Bewertungen

We were bewitched by Peter Benson's Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke, which is as bizarre and beguiling as its title sounds. -- Katy Guest, Fiction Uncovered judge
One of the most distinctive voices in modern British fiction. * Evening Standard *
Vividly, defiantly realistic at times, luridly surreal at others, his writing's ability to compound striking metaphors of the abstract with a graphic physicality has won him a deserved following. * The Times Literary Supplement *
A sharp stylist. * Sunday Telegraph *
At a time of growing urbanism and reductive social interaction, this delightful novel extols the simple virtues of landscape and love, a sentiment that is as important now as it was when Benson first became a storyteller. Perhaps even more so. * Independent on Sunday *
An adventure story written in Benson's distinctive, flourish-filled style and suffused with his deep and abiding love of the West Country. * Daily Mail *
A coming of age novel that turns the plot of a thriller into a lyrical celebration of the mysterious and enchanting power of the natural world. * TLS *
Peter Benson writes like an angel fuelled by inspirational quantities of organic Somerset cider. Get drunk on this fine novel. * The Regency Book Club *
A Huckleberry Finn for the Somerset wilds. * The Independent on Sunday *
Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke mixes Somerset drifters, corrupt police and stolen cannabis, but the real magic - literally - of the book is in its evocation of a mystical English countryside... the prose twists and rolls like a vine creeping over a medieval brick wall. * New Statesman *
A haunting tale of love, clairvoyance and cannabis. * The Guardian *

Über Peter Benson

Born in 1956, Peter Benson was educated in Ramsgate, Canterbury and Exeter. His first novel, The Levels, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. This was followed by A Lesser Dependency, winner of the Encore award, The Other Occupant, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award. He has also published short stories, screenplays and poetry, some adapted for TV, radio and many translated into other languages.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR003824581

ISBN 13

9781846881770

ISBN 10

1846881773

Titel

Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke Peter Benson

Autor

Peter Benson

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Alma Books Ltd

Datum

2012-03-29

Anzahl der Seiten

280

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N/A

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