I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train

Peter Hobbs author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:6th Mar '08

Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 19th May 2024, but could change

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I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train by Peter Hobbs - following the spectacular critical success of Hobbs's debut novel, The Short Day Dying, here is a wonderful collection of stories.

A divorced mother in Florida reflects on the life that is slipping away from her. A writer, marooned in a watery dystopia and charged with entertaining an unruly mob, pays the consequences for his (in)sensitive choice of material. And Pythagoras explains just what exactly was his problem with triangles.A divorced mother in Florida reflects on the life that is slipping away from her. A young zoologist sees the world from the business end of his zebras. A writer, marooned in a watery dystopia and charged with entertaining an unruly mob, pays the consequences for his (in)sensitive choice of material. And Pythagoras explains just what exactly was his problem with triangles.

"'... among the best short fiction being published today.' Nicholas Royle, Independent"

ISBN: 9780571217168

Dimensions: 197mm x 126mm x 19mm

Weight: 230g

272 pages

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