Small holdings / Nicola Barker
1995, First edition. London ; Boston : Faber and Faber. Proof copy. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #339641
ISBN: 0571175872
Physical description: 135 pages; 22 cm. Subjects: Gardeners; Fiction.
Gardeners. English fiction 20th century. English fiction.
London (England); Fiction.
England London. Genre:
Fiction. Summary: An attractive park in Palmers Green plays host to Phil, a chronically shy gardener who feels truly at home only with his plants. He and his gentle colleague Ray, a man with all the sense of a Savoy cabbage, are tortured by Doug, their imposing and unpredictable supervisor, and a malevolent one-legged ex-museum curator called Saleem. In love with the truck-obsessed Nancy, Phil strives nobly to maintain his equilibrium despite being systematically mystified, brutalised, drugged, derided and seduced. But when he loses his eyebrows, he decides to fight back.
Price: €21.00