Author: Andrew Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340823620
Category : Humorous stories
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Greil Sharkey is a failed lead guitarist turned unsuccessful freelance journalist with a coke habit, a penchant for gambling and a huge debt to pay. His debt collectors are thugs who have given him two days to come up with a grand. If he fails, he'll learn the hard way why he shouldn't ever have messed with them in the first place. Heidi Charlton is young, beautiful and terribly ambitious. She works as a lapdancer at a club called All Fur Coat. She'll do anything to become a model. Anything including, it seems, sleeping with the boss, the famous ex-footballer turned club-owner, and risking the antagonism of Fortune, Joy, Pleasure and all the other lapdancers. Simon is an artist with an unhealthy obsession for an actress whose face is on all the posters on the tube advertising the new musical she's in. He likes to pick off the chewing-gum people so frequently stick on bits of her body to make her pure and perfect again. He's working day and night on a triptych based on her and the pieces of gum he collects. ALL FUR COAT is the story of these three individuals, whose roller-coaster lives become dangerously and intricately intertwined as events spiral out of control towards the novel's inevitable dramatic conclusion.
All Fur Coat
Author: Andrew Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340823620
Category : Humorous stories
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Greil Sharkey is a failed lead guitarist turned unsuccessful freelance journalist with a coke habit, a penchant for gambling and a huge debt to pay. His debt collectors are thugs who have given him two days to come up with a grand. If he fails, he'll learn the hard way why he shouldn't ever have messed with them in the first place. Heidi Charlton is young, beautiful and terribly ambitious. She works as a lapdancer at a club called All Fur Coat. She'll do anything to become a model. Anything including, it seems, sleeping with the boss, the famous ex-footballer turned club-owner, and risking the antagonism of Fortune, Joy, Pleasure and all the other lapdancers. Simon is an artist with an unhealthy obsession for an actress whose face is on all the posters on the tube advertising the new musical she's in. He likes to pick off the chewing-gum people so frequently stick on bits of her body to make her pure and perfect again. He's working day and night on a triptych based on her and the pieces of gum he collects. ALL FUR COAT is the story of these three individuals, whose roller-coaster lives become dangerously and intricately intertwined as events spiral out of control towards the novel's inevitable dramatic conclusion.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340823620
Category : Humorous stories
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Greil Sharkey is a failed lead guitarist turned unsuccessful freelance journalist with a coke habit, a penchant for gambling and a huge debt to pay. His debt collectors are thugs who have given him two days to come up with a grand. If he fails, he'll learn the hard way why he shouldn't ever have messed with them in the first place. Heidi Charlton is young, beautiful and terribly ambitious. She works as a lapdancer at a club called All Fur Coat. She'll do anything to become a model. Anything including, it seems, sleeping with the boss, the famous ex-footballer turned club-owner, and risking the antagonism of Fortune, Joy, Pleasure and all the other lapdancers. Simon is an artist with an unhealthy obsession for an actress whose face is on all the posters on the tube advertising the new musical she's in. He likes to pick off the chewing-gum people so frequently stick on bits of her body to make her pure and perfect again. He's working day and night on a triptych based on her and the pieces of gum he collects. ALL FUR COAT is the story of these three individuals, whose roller-coaster lives become dangerously and intricately intertwined as events spiral out of control towards the novel's inevitable dramatic conclusion.
Fur Coat No Knickers
Author: C. B. Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992957001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
1.How the hell am I supposed to give a man the silent treatment when he's the one being silent? 2.My lunatic best friend has started talking to (and sleeping with) an inflatable doll called Barry... 3.And as for mum - she's only been tending my recently-rehabilitated sister's cannabis bush, thinking it's a tomato plant! Hurtling through her thirties, Tara is still yet to find her perfect man, despite gruelling efforts to transform herself into the perfect woman. Tara's prayers appear to have been answered when she miraculously falls into the arms of Travis Coleman - the famed, silver-tongued sex demon. It would seem the years of curling, plucking, painting and waxing may have finally paid off... However, Tara's fairy-tale soon spirals out of control when Travis inexplicably ceases all contact with her. Distraught and desperately stumbling from one crisis to another, Tara ultimately loses her mind, her dignity and - shamefully - her Knickers. Fur Coat No Knickers is a hilarious, touching and outrageous tale; bound to relate to any woman who has ever feared becoming nothing more than a booty call.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992957001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
1.How the hell am I supposed to give a man the silent treatment when he's the one being silent? 2.My lunatic best friend has started talking to (and sleeping with) an inflatable doll called Barry... 3.And as for mum - she's only been tending my recently-rehabilitated sister's cannabis bush, thinking it's a tomato plant! Hurtling through her thirties, Tara is still yet to find her perfect man, despite gruelling efforts to transform herself into the perfect woman. Tara's prayers appear to have been answered when she miraculously falls into the arms of Travis Coleman - the famed, silver-tongued sex demon. It would seem the years of curling, plucking, painting and waxing may have finally paid off... However, Tara's fairy-tale soon spirals out of control when Travis inexplicably ceases all contact with her. Distraught and desperately stumbling from one crisis to another, Tara ultimately loses her mind, her dignity and - shamefully - her Knickers. Fur Coat No Knickers is a hilarious, touching and outrageous tale; bound to relate to any woman who has ever feared becoming nothing more than a booty call.
Fur
Author: Jonathan Faiers
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300227205
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A groundbreaking, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of fur's fashionable and controversial history The first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, politics, and, of course, fashion. This material has a long, complex, and rich history, culminating in recent and ongoing anti-fur debates. Jonathan Faiers discusses how fur--long praised for its warmth, softness, and connotation of status--became so controversial, at the center of campaigns against animal cruelty and the movement toward ethical fashion. At the same time, fake fur now faces a backlash of its own, given the environmental impact of its manufacture and its links to fast fashion. Divided into five sections--dedicated to hair, pelt, coat, skin, and fleece--the book surveys not only the politics of fur but also its centrality to western fashion, the tactile pleasure it gives, and its use in literature, art, and film. This thoughtfully reasoned, eloquently written, and spectacularly illustrated examination of fur is both timely and essential, filling a gap in fashion scholarship and appealing to a broad audience.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300227205
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A groundbreaking, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of fur's fashionable and controversial history The first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, politics, and, of course, fashion. This material has a long, complex, and rich history, culminating in recent and ongoing anti-fur debates. Jonathan Faiers discusses how fur--long praised for its warmth, softness, and connotation of status--became so controversial, at the center of campaigns against animal cruelty and the movement toward ethical fashion. At the same time, fake fur now faces a backlash of its own, given the environmental impact of its manufacture and its links to fast fashion. Divided into five sections--dedicated to hair, pelt, coat, skin, and fleece--the book surveys not only the politics of fur but also its centrality to western fashion, the tactile pleasure it gives, and its use in literature, art, and film. This thoughtfully reasoned, eloquently written, and spectacularly illustrated examination of fur is both timely and essential, filling a gap in fashion scholarship and appealing to a broad audience.
Fur Coat and No Knickers
Author: Mike Harding
Publisher: Samuel French
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This hilarious play concerns the wedding of Deirdre and Mark. The fun begins on the stag night when an inebriated Mark is chained to a lamppost with a blow-up rubber doll. The wedding itself is quite high spirited too with half the guests, including the priest, suffering blinding hangovers. The play ends in comic chaos when Father Molloy, paralytically drunk, stumbles into the reception clad only in his ecclesiastical underwear, brandishing the blow-up doll 5 women, 9 men
Publisher: Samuel French
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This hilarious play concerns the wedding of Deirdre and Mark. The fun begins on the stag night when an inebriated Mark is chained to a lamppost with a blow-up rubber doll. The wedding itself is quite high spirited too with half the guests, including the priest, suffering blinding hangovers. The play ends in comic chaos when Father Molloy, paralytically drunk, stumbles into the reception clad only in his ecclesiastical underwear, brandishing the blow-up doll 5 women, 9 men
Trouble in a Fur Coat
Author: Janette Oke
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
ISBN: 9780764224560
Category : Bear cubs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two bear cubs spend their first year discovering the wonders and dangers of a forest with their mother.
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
ISBN: 9780764224560
Category : Bear cubs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two bear cubs spend their first year discovering the wonders and dangers of a forest with their mother.
The Cultural Politics of Fur
Author: Julia Emberley
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801484049
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Emberley documents the 1980s confrontations between animal rights activists and native peoples that pitted Lynx, the organization responsible for the high-profile anti-fur ads in Great Britain, against Inuit and Dene societies' claims for a livelihood based on the selling and trading, consumption and production of animal fur. From colonial fur trading to twentieth-century globalization of the fur industry, Emberley analyzes the cultural, political, material, and libidinal values ascribed to fur.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801484049
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Emberley documents the 1980s confrontations between animal rights activists and native peoples that pitted Lynx, the organization responsible for the high-profile anti-fur ads in Great Britain, against Inuit and Dene societies' claims for a livelihood based on the selling and trading, consumption and production of animal fur. From colonial fur trading to twentieth-century globalization of the fur industry, Emberley analyzes the cultural, political, material, and libidinal values ascribed to fur.
Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 140591095X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife pawns her lover's parting gift with unexpected consequences . . . Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the husband and wife who hit upon a novel way to feed their new baby; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a wronged woman taking revenge on her dead husband, and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Stephanie Beacham. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 140591095X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife pawns her lover's parting gift with unexpected consequences . . . Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the husband and wife who hit upon a novel way to feed their new baby; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a wronged woman taking revenge on her dead husband, and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Stephanie Beacham. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Fur Coat Big Knickers
Author: C B Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992957032
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Fur Coat Big Knickers is a hilarious, touching and outrageous tale; with cringe-inducing catastrophes, dubious hen-do's and momentous wardrobe malfunctions. Prepare yourself for a rollercoaster ride of Love, Deceit and good old-fashioned Denial.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992957032
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Fur Coat Big Knickers is a hilarious, touching and outrageous tale; with cringe-inducing catastrophes, dubious hen-do's and momentous wardrobe malfunctions. Prepare yourself for a rollercoaster ride of Love, Deceit and good old-fashioned Denial.
Flossie Teacake's Fur Coat
Author: Laurence Hutchins
Publisher: Bill Melendez Productions
ISBN: 0957032110
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Small, impetuous, and longing for attention, Flossie crept into the eerie bedroom of Bella, her fascinating teenage sister. Somewhere in the darkness, nestling within shadow, hung an old coat—a wondrous fur coat: rich, wild, and the waxy colour of autumn chestnuts. Where the fur comes from is a mystery, but once Flossie slips into its bear-like-skin, nothing will ever be the same again...
Publisher: Bill Melendez Productions
ISBN: 0957032110
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Small, impetuous, and longing for attention, Flossie crept into the eerie bedroom of Bella, her fascinating teenage sister. Somewhere in the darkness, nestling within shadow, hung an old coat—a wondrous fur coat: rich, wild, and the waxy colour of autumn chestnuts. Where the fur comes from is a mystery, but once Flossie slips into its bear-like-skin, nothing will ever be the same again...
The Man in the Black Fur Coat
Author: Oskar Scheja
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499285239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Before the first light of dawn on the morning of June twenty-second, 1941, Oskar Scheja stood on the western shore of the Bug River, looking to the east. The Russian army was camped on the other side. When the signal arrived to commence Operation Barbarossa he and his comrades from the German Wehrmacht stormed over the River and began an assault that took millions of Germans deep into Russian territory. For some the journey was brief. For others, like Oskar, it lasted for years, and the struggle did not end when the fighting was over. This is one German soldier's experience in combat and captivity. It is a story of bravery, despair, deception, and survival.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499285239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Before the first light of dawn on the morning of June twenty-second, 1941, Oskar Scheja stood on the western shore of the Bug River, looking to the east. The Russian army was camped on the other side. When the signal arrived to commence Operation Barbarossa he and his comrades from the German Wehrmacht stormed over the River and began an assault that took millions of Germans deep into Russian territory. For some the journey was brief. For others, like Oskar, it lasted for years, and the struggle did not end when the fighting was over. This is one German soldier's experience in combat and captivity. It is a story of bravery, despair, deception, and survival.