Overtaken

by Alexei Sayle (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.44

  Kelvin is a 33-year-old property developer living in a small Lancashire town.

  He has five close friends, all in well-paid jobs. Having bought their lovely houses cheaply in the early 1990s, they are free to spend money on their own pleasures - particularly clothes, meals and cars. Most of all, their life revolves around going to see things - art exhibitions, comedians, live music, plays...

  When we first meet the six friends they are on their way to see a new kind of circus. Once there Kelvin does something unforgivable to a clown, has a strange snack and meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen.

  It's the beginning of the end of the good life.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.78

  After the success of BARCELONA PLATES and THE DOG CATCHER, Alexei Sayle proves himself to be a formidable literary talent in this wonderful first novel. Kelvin is 33, he lives in a small town in Lancashire, he has five close friends. Because their houses were cheap to buy they inhabit wonderful dwellings and they still have plenty of spare cash to spend on other things, they travel all over the region going to all manner of art events - plays, concerts, comedians, pretty much whoever comes to a nearby town they'll go and see them. They have a wonderful life - it doesn't last. After the catastrophe Kelvin is faced with huge questions: does art have a purpose? Can every sinner be redeemed? What is a good life?

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $12.33

  Kelvin is a 33-year-old property developer living in a small Lancashire town.

  He has five close friends, all in well-paid jobs. Having bought their lovely houses cheaply in the early 1990s, they are free to spend money on their own pleasures - particularly clothes, meals and cars. Most of all, their life revolves around going to see things - art exhibitions, comedians, live music, plays...

  When we first meet the six friends they are on their way to see a new kind of circus. Once there Kelvin does something unforgivable to a clown, has a strange snack and meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen.

  It's the beginning of the end of the good life.