The Deadman's Pedal

by Alan Warner (Author)

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  Paperback
  2013

  $4.15

  Winner of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and girlfriends. When Simon falls for the ethereal, aristocratic Varie, he finds freedom and adventure but will it be at a price? Too `posh' for the railways, too `working class' for Varie, Simon must navigate what it means to be a man as his world is turned upside down.

• New

  Paperback
  2013

  $12.22

  Winner of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and girlfriends. When Simon falls for the ethereal, aristocratic Varie, he finds freedom and adventure but will it be at a price? Too `posh' for the railways, too `working class' for Varie, Simon must navigate what it means to be a man as his world is turned upside down.