Cucumber Man

Zusatztext

<p>Hilarious storytelling from the creator of Reginald Perrin.</p><p>It is 1957. The Suez Crisis has been and gone. Henry Pratt has completed his National Service and is putting his unsuccessful career as Thurmarsh's cub journalist behind him. Leaving Yorkshire, he's taking on a new role and a new challenge - working for the Cucumber Marketing Board in Leeds.</p><p>Stumbling through the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties, Henry Pratt accumulates jobs, marriages and children on the way as he embarks on a touching, painful and hilarious switchback ride through a divided Britain.</p>

Autorenportrait

David Nobbs was born in Kent. After university, he entered the army, then tried his hand at journalism and advertising before becoming a writer. A distinguished novelist and comedy writer best known for<i>The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin</i>, David Nobbs was acknowledged by his peers as a comic genius. He died in August 2015.

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