Barbara Parker valitakse 1964. aasta Miss Blackpooliks. Tüdrukul pole aga mingit soovi olla iluduskuninganna. Ta tahab inimesi naerma ajada nagu tema kangelanna, Ameerika teletäht Lucille Ball. Nii jätab Barbara Blackpooli ja oma pere, sõidab Londonisse ning leiab tööd kaubamaja kosmeetikaletis. Ent kuidas ilusaid tüdrukuid tulvil linnas tähelepanu köita? Juhuslik kohtumine agendiga toob Barbarale nii uue nime kui ka BBC uue komöödiasarja prooviesinemise. Sophie Straw on valmis telepubliku...
"How often do you begin reading a book that makes you—immediately, urgently, desperately—want to read more books?” (Booklist). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. Ten Years in the Tub chronicles Hornby's journey through a decade’s worth of books, as related in his wildly popular Believer column “Stuff I’ve Been Reading.”Ten Years in the Tub is a one-way...
“Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,” Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author’s monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful and never-musty tour of his reading life, Hornby tells us not just what to read, but how to read.Whether tackling a dismayingly bulky biography of Dickens while his children destroy something in the next room, or getting sucked into a...
