Terry Pratchett: Raising Steam, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Raising Steam
- (Discworld novel 40)
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Verlag:
- Transworld Publishers Ltd, 05/2017
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780552173612
- Artikelnummer:
- 6114524
- Umfang:
- 480 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 333 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke:
- 38 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 18.5.2017
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'Everybody wanted the railway close, oh yes please, but not so close that they could hear it or smell it'
It's only in dictatorships that the trains run on time. Everywhere else, signal failures, leaves on the line, the wrong type of snow and the wrong type of sunlight make departure and arrival times just a nice, idealistic theory. So when it becomes a matter of life and death to get a train somewhere on time, the odds don't look good - especially if that somewhere is a completely new destination. The only thing that upsets people more than railway delays, after all, is building more railway. Past their back gardens. And some of those people will go to extremes to stop locomotion in its tracks...
'British fiction's most brilliant satire on contemporary life'
Telegraph
'The most serious of comedies, the most relevant and real of fantasies...at once hilariously cynical and idealistically practical'
Independent
Biografie
Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of over three dozen novels, is one of the worlds best-selling novelists writing in the English language. His books have sold more than 65 milllion copies worldwide. In addition to his phenomenaland hugely popularDiscworld series for adults, Terry is the beloved author several childrens books. He was awarded Britains highest honor for a childrens novel, the Carnegie Medal. In 2008, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature. Terry lives in England, where he writes all the time. The characters and setting of THE TIFFANY ACHING ADVENTURES are dear to the authors heart, reflecting (obliquely) much of his own childhood in Englands Chalk countrythe part of the country where he still lives today. Mr. Pratchett and his wife, Lyn, have one grown daughter and many cats. Anyone can find out more about Terry at Harpers own website: terrypratchettbooks.com. In 2008, Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers Disease.
