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The Bottle Factory Outing
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Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory and their nights in a dismal bedsitter. Little wonder, then, that the works outing offers such promise.
From Publishers Weekly
This Booker nominee from the author of The Birthday Boys depicts two wine-bottling factory workers on holiday.
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Review
"'an outrageously funny and horrifying story' Graham Greene (Observer) 'After turning the final page of The Bottle Factory Outing, one can only gasp, and grope for the right word...Such an atmosphere of impending doom has not been created since Brighton Rock - except that Beryl Bainbridge is mercilessly comic instead of being mercilessly vicious. Specialising in successive denouements, and with her gift for collecting the most amazing detail, she is so in control of her marvellous little story that one hangs on her words from first to last. What originality, what pleasure.' Ronald Blythe (Sunday Times)"
About the Author
Beryl Bainbridge is one of the greatest and best-loved English novelists. Author of sixteen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she has been shortlisted for the Booker prize five times, most recently in 1998 for Master Georgie, which won the WH Smith Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She won the Whitbread Best Novel Award for the second time in 1996 with Every Man for Himself. At the recent British Book Awards she was named Author of the Year 1998.
Author: Beryl Bainbridge (all their books in stock)
Format: Paperback
Published: 1974
Pages: 160
Publisher: Fontana
ISBN: 9780006140108
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Our conditions mean the following:
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- Very Good - only minor imperfections such as minor scuffs to edge or cover or a price written in pencil or shop sticker.
- Standard Secondhand - Clearly been read before, but not too bad. We do not recommend these for gifting. Spines usually creased. Could also include creases or folds to cover, some writing such as in the cover or elsewhere, underlining or highlighting, but might not do. Possibly some stains or marks. Similar in general to books in any secondhand shop or charity shop.
- Poor Condition - Usually this will have a specific problem such as writing inside, water damage, missing dust jacket, heavy staining, large creases or cuts. These are readable copies but not nice ones. On other websites this condition is called 'Acceptable' or 'Fair' , but we want to be more honest.
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