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The Normal Man

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Janey March inhabits a world where food and love are king.

Worn down by starvation diets and a series of romances that have raised and dashed her hopes,she longs for domestic bliss,all the bread and jam she can eat but most of all for her father,dead now ten years.

Spanning one,eventful weekend,The Normal Man is a delightful and acute portrait of a singular psychology.Strewn with jokes and eccentricities,peopled with characters of questionable normality,it marks the debut of a wonderful new talent.

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1857994213 / 9781857994216
Paperback
823.914
01/07/1996
United Kingdom
English
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184p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
*A wonderfully original first novel,brimming over with jokes,cakes and deceptiv ely,wise observations on life and relationships. *'The Normal Man is a stunning debut-funny,whimsical and touching' Daily Telegraph.
*A wonderfully original first novel,brimming over with jokes,cakes and deceptiv ely,wise observations on life and relationships. *'The Normal Man is a stunning debut-funny,whimsical and touching' Daily Telegraph. FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)