The Big Q
des dillon(Author)
Headline Book Publishing
Published on 9. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7472-7547-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Three men are off from Coatbridge to Cucuruzzu, Italy, to do some construction work in a monastery in exchange for a holiday ('grub and a bed - that's the deal'). Some holiday it turns out to be, what with optional Mass at five in the morning, a mad monk and the salami fiasco. But even this remote and tranquil mountain cannot offer sanctuary from the past and the story of Jimmy Brogan, a wildly original, broken man. As the run up to Easter Sunday in the monastery becomes more and more farcical, so Jimmy's story builds to a chilling climax - and suddenly the past explodes into the present...
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 16 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 196 mm
Weight
211 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7472-7547-3 (9780747275473)
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Person
Des Dillon was born and brought up in the Larnarkshire town of Coatbridge. He has worked as a teacher of English and has had several of his books adapted for film and television.