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Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men
Colin Bateman
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Description for Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men
Paperback.
Fat Boy McMaster is a hopeless heavyweight boxer, but he has managed to become champion of Ireland, and his devious manager has succeeded in setting up a gigantic payday (largely for himself, admittedly) with a St Patrick's Day fight in New York against Mike Tyson. Journalist Dan Starkey is hired to write the book of the whole affair. Starkey tries to persuade his wife Patricia to give their marriage another try, but he has not succeeded before boarding the plane for the Big Apple with McMaster and his deeply suspect entourage. Once there McMaster's wife is kidnapped, almost every interest ... Read more
Fat Boy McMaster is a hopeless heavyweight boxer, but he has managed to become champion of Ireland, and his devious manager has succeeded in setting up a gigantic payday (largely for himself, admittedly) with a St Patrick's Day fight in New York against Mike Tyson. Journalist Dan Starkey is hired to write the book of the whole affair. Starkey tries to persuade his wife Patricia to give their marriage another try, but he has not succeeded before boarding the plane for the Big Apple with McMaster and his deeply suspect entourage. Once there McMaster's wife is kidnapped, almost every interest ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
HarperCollins
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006496120
SKU
KEX0237933
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Colin Bateman
Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and educated at Bangor Grammar School before joining the County Down Spectator, where he became deputy editor. In 1990 he received a Journalist's Fellowship to Oxford University for his reports from Uganda and received the N.I. Press Award for his weekly satirical column. He now writes full-time. He lives with his ... Read more
Reviews for Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men
Praise for Colin Bateman: 'Hysterically funny one-liners and sinister Kafkaesque developments' Daily Mail 'If Roddy Doyle was as good as people say, he would probably write novels like this' Arena