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The Bottle Factory Outing

The Bottle Factory Outing

by Beryl Bainbridge (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

    $12.18

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    Paperback 1975

    $8.54
Synopsis

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE 1974
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1974

Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.

$12.18

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Publisher: Abacus
Published: 02 Sep 2010
ISBN 10: 0349123713
ISBN 13: 9780349123714
Book Overview: * This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback

Author Bio
Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, she won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and Author of the Year at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.