Mr. Vertigo
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571229086 (0571229085)
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited
Pages no: 278
Edition language: English
Ich versuche diesem Buch kein Unrecht zutun. Ich muss ja gestehen, dass ich es für unseren Buchclub vorgeschlagen habe. Zu meiner Verteidigung - da konnte ich ja noch nicht ahnen, wo das alles enden sollte. In meinen Augen fing es wirklich vielversprechend an: ein kleiner armer, verrotzter und rotzi...
One of my favorites ever !!!
I was pushing eighteen by the time I caught up with him. I'd grown to my full height of five feet five and a half inches, and Roosevelt's inauguration was just two months away. Bootleggers were still in business, but with Prohibition about to give up the ghost, they were selling off their last bits ...
When I was a young dumb teenager unaware of the complexity of the whole world, one of the hit songs I use to listen again and again and once more on a self recorded tape was "I wish I could fly" by Roxette. Ehm. Have you noticed that "When I was a young dumb etc." at the beginning of the sentence? P...