Kansas in August (Paperback)

Patrick Gale (author)

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Paperback 160 Pages / Published: 04/02/2002

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A toe-tapping story of life and its wonderful and unexpected complexities.

Hilary is a young, attractive teacher with aspirations to be a tap-dancer. Henry, his elder sister, is a crisp, professional psychologist. The unpredictable and unreliable Rufus, a failed pianist, is their lover - whom neither Hilary nor Henry realise they are sharing. Despite the constant danger of discovery, this unwitting triangle persists, in delicate balance - until, that is, someone new and totally unexpected enters the frame. Having rescued an abandoned baby boy, found soaked and tearful in a subway, Hilary decides, to his own great surprise, to become a surrogate parent.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780006545460
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 130 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm

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`Patrick Gale, on the strength of this modern, excellent and sympathetic novel, seems to be bound for greatness.' Stephen Fry

`Patrick Gale is an elegant, witty writer, with an engagingly bizarre imagination.' Sunday Telegraph

`Gale's blend of artifice and realism is not quite like anybody else's.' Observer

Patrick Gale

A bestselling British novelist, Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight. Before becoming a writer, Gale made his living with a series of odd jobs including, he writes, being ‘a typist, a singing waiter, a ghost-writer for an encyclopedia of the musical and… a book reviewer’. His first two novels, The Aerodynamics of Pork and Ease were published on the same day in 1986. Since then his books have included: Dangerous Pleasures, Rough Music, Notes from an Exhibition, The Whole Day Through, A Perfectly Good Man, A Place Called Winter and Take Nothing With You.

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