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Title: Every Street in Manchester
Publisher: Limited Edition Press
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1859880657
ISBN 13: 9781859880654
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: Good
Weight: 200 grams

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Synopsis

A latter day Manchester man relates his life story in a Mancunian vernacular
with editorial assistance from a friend. The result of their joint endeavour is
a tragicomic novel spanning the second half of the twentieth century
in a northern suburb of the city from where the Third World is
temporarily accessed via the Pennine Way.

Manchester man Tony Dinch tells his story in a Mancunian vernacular that treads a linguistic tightrope strung, as it were, between the Pennine watershed and the roof of the Liver Building. His friend Byron has something to say in the matter too, Every Street in Manchester being the result of their collaboration - a tragi-comic tour de force spanning the second half of the twentieth century in a northern suburb of the city.

Take Dinchy at work, if you will (he is successively, though none too successfully, a navvy, delivery driver, marketman, cabbie, and postman), or Dinchy at play (in the Embassy Club with Shirlee, in a football melee with the lads, on the Pennine Way with Byron, in the parish procession with his dad) and you'll realise soon enough he's a perennial disaster area just looking for somewhere to happen. Witness his wedding reception where the guests bring the roof down, or the christening party where a gatecrasher upchucks on the buffet.

It should go without saying perhaps that references to Dinchy's talents are manifold.

`You'll be took away in a yeller van, you!' Shirlee's mum.

`Whassermarrer wi' yer?' Dinchy's oppo at work.

`There's a barm pot in 'ere, talkin' to hisself!' Dinchy's dad.

`Look what yer bleedin' done, yer pillock!' mouthy Mancunian miss.

Still, Dinchy's heart's in the right place, you'll find. Hey, so's the boy's head too. There it is - on top of his shoulders where you'd expect it to be. Oh, it's a bit on the slow side, admittedly; so it's probably just as well he's got Byron to cover for him - and a good woman too. Correction: Dinchy had a good woman; Dinchy had Shirlee once upon a time.

So isn't it all just a case of once upon a time?

Well, maybe so - but, there again, maybe not. Because it all depends on how you look at things and what you believe in. Take Dinchy, for example: Dinchy doesn't know too much, that's for sure. But what he does know is plenty big enough for him.

Review

'A fascinating read' -- Billy Hopkins, author of OUR KID

'A tragicomic masterpiece' -- Fr Brian Seale, author of THE MOSTON STORY

‘A fascinating read . . . First class writing . . . clever, witty composition’ -- Billy Hopkins, best selling author of Our Kid, High Hopes, Kate’s Story, Goin g Places, Anything Goes

‘A tragicomic masterpiece . . . deeply moving . . . completely natural and hilarious’ -- Fr Brian Seale, St John Vianney’s, author of The Moston Story

‘Absolutely wonderful – every sentence a tonic – bringing back many memories . . . I savour every page. Superb! Excellent!’ -- Martin McCawley, Bolton, Greater Manchester:

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