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Roar!
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- Book Synopsis
- Martin Hayes' new collection is a roar of frustrated rage and pain at the way we live and work in the twenty-first century. It's a book about 11-hour shifts, sick-days, lay-offs, computer systems crashing and the joy of Friday afternoons. Dermot, Stacey, Shaq, Big Bri, Dexter the old-timer, Antoine, Mohammed, Jim the Letch and Harry the head supervisor work for Phoenix Express couriers, located somewhere 'between Stockholm Street and Syndrome Way', making money for other people and trying to make themselves heard above the roar of an economic system that 'has us in its mouth and is shaking us about in its teeth'.
- About The Author
- Martin Hayes has lived in the Edgware Road area of London all of his life. He played schoolboy football for Arsenal and Orient, and cricket for Middlesex Colts. Asked to leave school when he was 15, he has worked as a leaflet distributor, accounts clerk, courier, telephonist, recruitment manager and a control room supervisor. His other books are Letting Loose the Hounds (2001), When We Were Almost Like Men (2015), Roar! (2018), The Things Our Hands Once Stood For (2018) and Ox (2021).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781999827618
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Smokestack Books, (01 June 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 296
- Weight
- 328 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 128 x 23 mm
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