Kansas in August (Arena Books) - Softcover

Gale, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099535408 ISBN 13: 9780099535409

Publisher: Arena Arrow, 1988

Synopsis

Hilary Metcalfe, depressed because of his failing career as a singer and dancer, spends his twenty-fifth birthday wandering the streets and discovers an abandoned baby in a subway station

About this title

Review:

‘Patrick Gale, on the strength of this modern, excellent and sympathetic novel, seems to be bound for greatness.’ Stephen Fry

‘Patrick Gale is an elegant, witty writer, with an engagingly bizarre imagination.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Gale’s blend of artifice and realism is not quite like anybody else’s.’ Observer

From the Back Cover:

Hilary is a young, attractive teacher with aspirations to be a tap-dancer. Henry, his elder sister, is a crisp, professional psychologist. The unpredictable and unreliable Rufus, a failed pianist, is their lover – whom neither Hilary nor Henry realise they are sharing. Despite the constant danger of discovery, this unwitting triangle persists, in delicate balance – until, that is, someone new and totally unexpected enters the frame. Having rescued an abandoned baby boy, found soaked and tearful in a subway, Hilary decides, to his own great surprise, to become a surrogate parent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arena Arrow
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0099535408
• ISBN 13: 9780099535409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144