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Tony Saint
ISBN: 9781852429201
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
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Council worker Roger joined the ASBO unit because new departments are the best places to avoid work. Depressed by the death of his father and wanting to escape the office, he goes to investigate a condemned tower block on the notorious Composer's estate. Looking down from the third floor, Roger is mesmerised by the sight of local kids …
Council worker Roger joined the ASBO unit because new departments are the best places to avoid work. Feeling oddly blank about the death of his father and wanting to escape the office, he goes to investigate a condemned tower block on the notorious Composer's estate. Looking down from the third floor, Roger is mesmerised by the sight of local kids - mostly characters he recognises from the ASBO lists - drinking and fighting in the piazza below. He returns regularly, and even invites his colleague Spence along one night. Spence intentionally leaves his brand new Mercedes unlocked in the piazza, and waits for the fun to start. So the ASBO show is born. Soon Spence is hosting drug-fuelled parties for local dignitaries, celebrities, even hen nights, and Roger fears that his voyeurism has become corporate entertainment. Still, helped along by uppers and downers and his glamorous new girlfriend, he drifts along with it. By the time things get really ugly, it's much too late...
| ISBN | 1852429208 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781852429201
(What's this?) | | Pages | 256 | | Publisher | Profile Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Serpent's Tail | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Publication date | 16 Feb 2007 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 823.92 | |
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"'Refusal Shoes comes on like a cross between Airport and League of Gentlemen... Saint writes some very funny dialogue and offers sharp observation' Independent on Sunday 'Part thriller, part expose, Refusal Shoes is refreshingly politically incorrect and wickedly funny' Observer 'An amusing satirical thriller that provides an eye-popping glimpse behind the immigration desks at Heathrow. It shocks in more ways than one' Sunday Telegraph 'Like the novels of Magnus Mills and the TV work of Ricky Gervais and the League of Gentlemen crew, this is a work in the emerging school of the new absurd... morally accurate, spiritually depressing and vastly readable' Big Issue in the North"  Be the first to write a customer review
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