| Author: | Fiona Campbell | ISBN: | 9781407019437 |
| Publisher: | Random House | Publication: | February 15, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage Digital | Language: | English |
| Author: | Fiona Campbell |
| ISBN: | 9781407019437 |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Publication: | February 15, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage Digital |
| Language: | English |
Kenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated mother-in-law and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarassed to tell his family that he has been fired, Kenji first befriends a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis before taking up gambling, but his wife's outrage soon brings an end to this and sends him on a roller-coaster of misadventures.
Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show...
Fiona Campbell's novel is a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy.
Kenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated mother-in-law and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarassed to tell his family that he has been fired, Kenji first befriends a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis before taking up gambling, but his wife's outrage soon brings an end to this and sends him on a roller-coaster of misadventures.
Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show...
Fiona Campbell's novel is a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy.
