| Edition |
First Vintage International edition. |
| Description |
448 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published ... by Hamish Hamilton, London, and subsequently ... by Random House, Inc., New York, in 2000"--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
Archie 1974, 1945 -- 1: Peculiar second marriage of Archie Jones -- 2: Teething trouble -- 3: Two families -- 4: Three coming -- 5: Root canals of Alfred Archibald Jones and Samad Miah Iqbal -- Samad 1984, 1857 -- 6: Temptation of Samad Iqbal -- 7: Molars -- 8: Mitosis -- 9: Mutiny! -- 10: Root canals of Mangal Pande -- Irie 1990, 1907 -- 11: Mis education of Irie Jones -- 12: Canines: the ripping teeth -- 13: Root canals of Hortense Bowden -- 14: More English than the English -- 15: Chalfenism versus Bowdenism -- Magid, Millat, And Marcus 1992, 1999 -- 16: Return of Magid Mahfooz Murshed Mubtasim Iqbal -- 17: Crisis talks and eleventh-hour tactics -- 18: End of history versus the last man -- 19: Final space -- 20: Of mice and memory. |
| Summary |
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie-working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt-is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion this richly imagined, uproariously funny novel. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.9 29.0 67005. |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
0375703861 paperback |
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9780375703867 paperback |
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