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Rescue Me
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Rescue Me
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Christopher Hart
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:256 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 126 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780571206308
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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| Edition |
Main
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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| Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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| Publication Date |
6 May 2002 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Having lost his job following a near-fatal PR stunt involving a television weather girl and a hot air balloon, Daniel is in need of a career change. After stumbling across an advert for gentleman gigolos at the back of a magazine, a lucrative and highly embarrassing career beckons, until one day he is summoned to an appointment in Mayfair, and his life veers off course for ever...
Author Biography
Born in Lancashire in 1965, Christopher Hart moved to Cheltenham aged seven. He attended Cheltenham College and left with 'three awful A-levels'. In 1986 he went to Oxford Brookes University where he studied English and Art History, and then on to Birkbeck College in London, where he gained a PhD on W.B. Yeats.He is literary editor of the Erotic Review and freelances for the Literary Review, The Bookseller, Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.Christopher Hart's first novel, The Harvest, won huge acclaim on publication in 1999. His second novel, Rescue Me, was published by Faber in June 2001. He is currently at work on his third novel.
Reviews'Smart and smooth... A wry, sophisticated look at what modern men and women want.' Esquire 'This quick-witted and enjoyable sentimental love-story... has great pace, great comic set-pieces... to be highly recommended.' Independent
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