The Complete Pratt: (Henry Pratt)

by David Nobbs (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $6.63

  Compiling the entire misadventures of Henry Pratt, this book begins with the humorous evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood, Second From Last in the Sack Race. Henry's first job is conveyed in Pratt of the Argus, and finishes with The Cucumber Man, as he works for the Cucumber Marketing Board.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.24

  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...