by David Nobbs · Mandarin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749336066
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«Second From Last in the Sack Race» is David Nobbs's comic novel, published by Mandarin in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Henry Pratt grows up in the north of England in the 1930s and 1940s, and his life becomes a quest for survival. To make his way, the young man develops a peculiar personal technique, in a story told with humour.
First instalment of the Henry Pratt series. The 1992 edition brings together «Second From Last in the Sack Race» and «Pratt of the Argus» and was published to coincide with the Granada television series.
For readers of British fiction interested in coming-of-age stories set in twentieth-century England.
David Gordon Nobbs was an English comedy writer, most notable for writing the 1970s television series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.
