The ASBO Show
Published on 16. February 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-85242-920-1 (ISBN)
Description
Council worker Roger has joined the ASBO unit because new departments are the best places to avoid work. Feeling oddly blank about the death of his father and wanting to escape the office, he goes to investigate a condemned tower block on the notorious Composer's estate. Looking down from the third floor, Roger is mesmerised by the sight of local kids ? mostly characters he recognises from the ASBO lists ? drinking and fighting in the piazza below. He returns regularly, and even invites his colleague Spence around one night. Spence intentionally leaves his brand new Mercedes unlocked in the piazza, and waits for the fun to start. So the ASBO show is born. Soon Spence is hosting drug-fuelled parties for local dignitaries, celebrities, even hen nights, and Roger fears that his voyeurism has become corporate entertainment. Still, helped along by uppers and downers and his glamorous new girlfriend, he drifts along with it. By the time things get really ugly, it's much too late?
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Tony Saint?s previous novels: ?Refusal Shoes comes on like a cross between Airport and League of Gentlemen... Saint writes some very funny dialogue and offers sharp observation? Independent on Sunday ?Part thriller, part expos?, Refusal Shoes is refreshingly politically incorrect and wickedly funny? Observer ?An amusing satirical thriller that provides an eye-popping glimpse behind the immigration desks at Heathrow. It shocks in more ways than one? Sunday Telegraph ?Like the novels of Magnus Mills and the TV work of Ricky Gervais and the League of Gentlemen crew, this is a work in the emerging school of the new absurd... morally accurate, spiritually depressing and vastly readable? Big Issue in the NorthMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85242-920-1 (9781852429201)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Tony Saint was born in Northumberland in 1968 and educated at the taxpayer's expense. In 1993 he joined the United Kingdom Immigration Service where he worked for ten years before leaving to write Refusal Shoes (2003), based on his experiences. Tony has written extensively for radio and TV and is currently working on a television film about the early career of Margaret Thatcher. He has also contributed to many of the UK's national newspapers. He is married with two children and lives in South London.