by PaulWilson (Author)
Noah, an orphan with no past, has run a community centre for the past twenty years, but faced with immiment closure, he begins to image the story of the man he would have liked to have been - the charismatic and magical Mr George whose impact on the town in the 1930s is the stuff of local legend.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: paperback / softback
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 18 Apr 2000
ISBN 10: 1862073309
ISBN 13: 9781862073302
Book Overview: The author was the winner of the 1997 Portico Prize for Literature for Do White Whales Sing at the Edge of the World?