Description
Product ID: | 9781860464454 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Fairy Gunmother |
Authors: | Author: Daniel Pennac |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A policeman on a mission of mercy is shot dead at point-blank range by a sweet old granny on a frosty morning. Maniacally inventive - some have called it deranged - Pennac's creations in The Fairy Gunmother have achieved cult status all over Europe. A policeman on a mission of mercy is shot dead at point-blank range by a sweet old granny on a frosty morning. The neighbourhood, Paris''s bubbling Belleville quarter, is already in uproar because half a dozen other grannies have been found with their shrivelled throats slit. Into this tense situation stumbles Benjamin Malaussène with an overly complicated life that includes his voluptuous red-haired girlfriend, Julie, and his smelly epileptic dog, Julius. Maniacally inventive - some have called it deranged - Pennac''s creations in The Fairy Gunmother have achieved cult status all over Europe. |
Imprint Name: | The Harvill Press |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1998-06-18 |