Stanley And The Women
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Mar '04
Should be back in stock very soon
'A great storyteller, although he was much more than a storyteller' - Keith Waterhouse
Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.
He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist -- John Mortimer
ISBN: 9780099461043
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm
Weight: 213g
304 pages