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The Weekenders

Travels in the Heart of Africa

The Weekenders( )
Author: Garland, Alex
Deedes, W. F.
Foden, Giles
Glendinning, Victoria
Hawks, Tony
O'Hagan, Andrew
Welsh, Irvine
ISBN:978-0-09-188180-1
Publication Date:Dec 2001
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Ebury Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $32.99
Book Description:

What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet? What would happen if you took Irvine Welsh from the streets of Edinburgh and showed him a remote, dangerous village in Africa? Or if you flew Alex Garland into one of the world's most hazardous war zones? And how would Tony Hawks react if you dragged him away from his tennis and asked him to write a song with a...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.7 x 19.8 x 2.3 cm
Book Weight:0.276 Kilograms
Author Biography
Garland, Alex (Author)
Born in London in 1970, Alex Garland published his first novel, The Beach, when he was 26. Set among a group of backpackers in Southeast Asia, The Beach is a fast-paced and suspenseful thriller that has been called the first serious Generation X novel. Like The Lord of the Flies, to which it has sometimes been compared, The Beach deals with a dark side of humanity, revealed when the characters find themselves set apart from civilization.

Garland's second novel, The Tesseract, was published in 1998 and is also set in Southeast Asia, this time in the Philippines. The Tesseract follows the lives of several different characters during one night in Manila, with the different stories all coming together to meet in an explosive ending.

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