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When Frankie Hermans emerges from a coma after 200 days, he knows his life is never going to be the same again. For a start, he can't talk, he can't walk and it's a struggle even to wield a pen. And then there's Joe Speedboat - a boy who arrived in the sleepy village of Lomark like a blazing comet and who's been stirring things up ever since.
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'Never just another would-be inspirational read about overcoming adversity, Wieringa’s novel offers a rewarding journey into the unfamiliar. It is also witty, thoughtful and surprisingly tender as Frankie comes to realise that he has got a life to live that is still worth the living.'
(The Independent)'[A] brilliant coming-of-age story with an outlandish twist ... There are more coming-of-age novels than dikes in Holland, but this wonderfully weird novel is not one to miss.'
(Publishers Weekly)'The triumph and tragedy that pepper the story feel authentically random, though the familiar coming-of-age structure lends the book a directionless, episodic feel ... Wieringa’s tale takes on the feel of a good road-trip novel perfectly suited to his cast of eccentrics. The setting of rural Holland is convincingly rendered, and the low-key freakishness (think Garp) keeps things at just the right degree of weird.'
(Booklist)'[An] offbeat story of a group of boys searching for meaning . . . This work conjures John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany but with a lighter touch.'
(Library Journal)'Winsome ... Wieringa’s protagonist, Frankie, has an attitude attune to Holden Caulfield, without the anxiety and the quirks ... [Frankie’s] unwavering and confident ... in-your-face voice ... applies literature to life, lyrically, with an attention to minutiae ... Charismatic, intelligent, he’s the kinetic energy that thrusts the narrative forward.'
(Bookslut)'A wonderfully eccentric and uproariously funny novel.'
(Books Quarterly)'A lovely book, full of eccentricity and charm.'
(Book Bag)TOMMY WIERINGA was born in 1967 and grew up partly in the Netherlands, partly in the tropics. He began his writing career with travel stories and journalism and is the author of two previous novels, one of which was awarded Holland's Halewijn prize and nominated for the AKO Literature Prize. This is his first novel to be published in English. www.tommywieringa.nl
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- PublisherPortobello Books Ltd
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1846271045
- ISBN 13 9781846271045
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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