9780743201599 - Its What He Wouldve Wanted by Hughes, Used (9 results)

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 2001. March 2001. Scribner. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0743201590. 291 pages. hardcover. Jacket design & photography by David J. High & Ralph C. Del Pozzo. keywords: Europe England Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Sean Hughes is an award-winning Irish comic turned bestselling writer whom the British Independent has compared to the likes of Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, and Will Self. Now, the popular comedian delivers IT'S WHAT HE WOULD'VE WANTED, a brutally funny, highly charged, and moving novel about a directionless thirty-year-old man's belated transition into adulthood. Our narrator and protagonist is Shea Hickson, a commitment-phobic just-turned-thirty-year-old with somewhat adolescent leanings. Shea lives off lottery winnings and spends his time blindly serving a secret organization whose stated duty is to 'seek truth,' which, though Shea doesn't quite realize it, turns out to be a small-time terrorist gig. Shea's parents appear to be a quintessentially comfortable, suburban middle-class couple, and when sons Shea and Orwell (named after Che Guevara and George, their father having been something of a nostalgic radical) arrive for Christmas Eve, all seems as it should be. But when Shea turns a corner to find his father, a BBC weatherman, hanging from the light fixture, the son's disaffected existence is turned upside down. Worse, Shea's discovery of an encoded journal his father had been keeping uncovers shocking revelations about his father's disappointed life as a parent, husband, and disillusioned minor celebrity. Jolted from his emotional ennui, Shea determines to figure out what drove his father to his death and, in the process of unraveling the Hickson family's increasingly distasteful secrets, comes to better understand himself. With wry humor and savage undercurrents, the story winds through the seamier side of London life - skirting the worlds of television, newspapers, and small-scale urban terrorism. inventory #28748.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. NOT marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. NOT faded. NOT book club edition. NOT ex-library. Some small spots of soiling to front end paper and page edges. All of our dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective book jacket covers.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDNear fine tips little bumped in near fine dust jacket. First edition.

Paperback. Condition: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDHumorous fiction; Good trade paperback with creasing, nicked, sticker remanence on front cover, back cover stained, and prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Publisher: Scribner, NY, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. PRISTINE. As New. Unread. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. Publisher: Scribner, New York, 2001. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Pristine. As new. Unread.

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