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Beer in the Snooker Club

Beer in the Snooker Club( )
Author: Ghali, Waguih
Introduction by: Athill, Diana
ISBN:978-1-85242-108-3
Publication Date:Jul 2007
Publisher:Serpent's Tail Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $35.00
Book Description:

Behind the bar at Jameel?s in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no Bass in Nasser?s Egypt ? so Ram and Font have to make do with a heady mixture of beer, vodka and whisky. Yearning for Bass they long to be far from a revolution that neither serves the people nor allows their rich aunts to live the life of leisure they are accustomed to. Stranded between two...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.5 x 1.7 x 19.5 cm
Book Weight:0.224 Kilograms
Author Biography
Ghali, Waguih (Author)
Diana Athill was born in England on December 21, 1917. She was educated at Oxford University. During World War II, she as a researcher with the BBC. She worked as an editor at Allan Wingate and then at André Deutsch. Athill started writing autobiography in her early 40s. Her memoir, Instead of a Letter, was published in 1962. Her other memoirs included After a Funeral; Make Believe; Alive, Alive Oh!; Stet; Yesterday Morning; and A Florence Diary. Somewhere Towards the End won a Costa Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works included a volume of short stories entitled An Unavoidable Delay and a novel entitled Don't Look at Me Like That. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2009. She died on January 23, 2019 at the age of 101.

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