Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers - Benson, Peter
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Fargo Hawkins dropped out of school. Now he is a gardener. HeâEUR(TM)s twenty years old, and works for Harry Swaine, an abusive butcher with a chain of shops on the south coast of England. After witnessing a fight between Harry and Anne (his wife) Fargo steals a car and together he, Anne and a dog called Radar go on the run. They have £9,653, a bag of apples, a penknife and three bottles of wine. An incandescent Harry, a firm of private detectives and their emotions chase them across the country. In no time they are a newspaper headline âEUR" Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers. After a series…mehr

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Fargo Hawkins dropped out of school. Now he is a gardener. HeâEUR(TM)s twenty years old, and works for Harry Swaine, an abusive butcher with a chain of shops on the south coast of England. After witnessing a fight between Harry and Anne (his wife) Fargo steals a car and together he, Anne and a dog called Radar go on the run. They have £9,653, a bag of apples, a penknife and three bottles of wine. An incandescent Harry, a firm of private detectives and their emotions chase them across the country. In no time they are a newspaper headline âEUR" Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers. After a series of close calls, near misses and other adventures Anne and Fargo pitch up at a caravan site in North Wales, where they find work and lie low. But a man as possessive as Harry is not to be denied. Their westward journey has become one of revelation for all three of them as their relationships move from pure emotion to something more contemplative. JourneyâEUR(TM)s end for Fargo and Anne is the Llyn peninsula and the cottage of late poet R.S. Thomas. For Harry, it is somewhere darker. Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers is classic Benson: imaginative, inventive, page-turning, full of lyrical images and unexpected turns in the plot. It is an engaging story well told about three memorable characters and about unexpected love, and confirms his place as one of the most individual voices in modern British fiction.
Autorenporträt
Peter Benson was born in Vienna, Austria in 1956. He spent his childhood travelling with his parents, and after an abortive university career and a series of agricultural jobs, settled in Somerset in the 1980s. He published his first novel, THE LEVELS in 1987, and this and his subsequent novels won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Author's Club First Novel Award, the Encore Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and established him as 'one of the most distinctive voices in modern British fiction.'