Tornado Pratt (Paperback, Main)

Tornado Pratt is the last of the old-style American tycoons, one who has lived his life with ferocious vigour through the vacillating fortunes of the twentieth-century USA. Paul Ableman's novel finds him in a hotel room at the end of his days, as he recounts via a dying monologue the events of his turbulent life. What is revealed, in a testimony full of jokes and surprises, is a brash, lustful, comic, profane, naive and sentimental man who, driven on by remorse, displays a wry and perceptive honesty about himself, even as his memories begin to merge with imaginings. Often funny and sometimes moving, Tornado Pratt's voice is an unforgettable one in which he confronts his own mortality, and in which Paul Ableman gives us an astonishing, affecting and life-affirming story. Auberon Waugh called Tornado Pratt 'a magnificent and memorable novel'.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2014
Authors:	Paul Ableman
Introduction by:	Margaret Drabble
Dimensions:	234 x 153 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-31486-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-571-31486-4
Barcode:	9780571314867

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