The Complete Pratt: (Henry Pratt) (Henry Pratt, 3)

by David Nobbs (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.29

  The Complete Pratt compiles the first three volumes of the misadventures of Henry Pratt, beginning with a brilliantly funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood in Second from Last in the Sack Race ; Henry's first job is as a cub reporter on the Thurmarsh Evening Argus, told in Pratt of the Argus , hailed by Sue Townsend as 'very funny'. Finally, in The Cucumber Man , Henry decides to take on a new role and a new challenge - working for the Cucumber Marketing Board in Leeds. Stumbling through the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties, Henry accumulates marriages and children along the way and The Complete Pratt is a touching and hilarious ride through a divided Britain...