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The Way Things Are

The Way Things Are

Hardback (02 Sep 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This is collection of poems ranges from the sad and serious - such as the title poem about the impossibility of teaching your children anything - through to the jokes and word-play for which the author is famous.

About the Publisher

Viking

Viking

Viking publishes the widest possible range of literary fiction and non-fiction. Our fiction list includes John le Carr?, Nick Hornby, Will Self, Colm T?ib?n, Nicole Krauss, William Trevor, Catherine O' Flynn, Jonathan Coe, and Joshua Ferris. In non-fiction, the range covers current affairs, history, biography, memoir, narrative non-fiction, music and sport. Our authors include Antony Beevor, Andrew Rawnsley, Mark Bostridge, Sarah Bradford, Saul David, Catherine Bailey, Lynn Barber, Claire Tomalin and John Stubbs.

Book information

ISBN: 9780670886555
Publisher: Viking
Imprint: Viking
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.914
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 83
Weight: -1g

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