The Lottery - Softcover

Tulloch, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 009942214X ISBN 13: 9780099422143

Publisher: Vintage, 2004

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The Lottery

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Book Description:

The final book in Tulloch's Gateshead trilogy.

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'Like an English Roddy Doyle, Tulloch's dialect and characterisation of a community down but not out is at once hilarious and heartbreaking...Tulloch's Gateshead may become as memorable as Doyle's Dublin.' GQ

When Audrey and Ronny win the National Lottery their troubles seem to be over. Long outstanding bills can be mett, the loan shark paid off, and their cleaning and cowboy-builder jobs gleefully ditched. But for Audrey, matriarch of the Gateshead tower blocks, and Ronny the flamboyant dreamer, the winning ticket brings with it many unforseen changes. There are lotteries of a different whose prizes, some lesser, some far greater, must be won or heatbreakingly lost.

With humour and tenderness, The Lottery measures human endeavour against the vagaries of chance, fate and mortality. Set against a backdrop of poverty and opulence, this is a love story told with all the timeless poignancy and melody of a folk ballad.

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