Paperback
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Request this book.| Genre: | Classics |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | August 23, 2016 |
| Edition: | 5th |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780241255544 |
| ISBN10: | 0241255546 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Dimensions: | 5.11 x 7.73 x 0.62 inches |
| Weight: | 189.94 g |
About the Book
One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.'