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Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
 
 
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'A satirist of enormous talent' THE TIMES.

 

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist…

… and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet.

It’s a tough decision.

But he’s got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers’ Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.

Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too...

‘Pratchett’s joy in his creations, in jokes, puns, the idea of letters and language itself, makes Going Postal one of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention’
The Times

‘With all the puns, strange names and quick-fire jokes about captive letters demanding to be delivered, it’s easy to miss how cross with injustice Pratchett can be. This darkness and concrete morality sets his work apart from imitators of his English Absurd school of comic fantasy’
Guardian

 

 

 

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Corgi • Fantasy
Publication Date: 01/10/2005 • 480 pages • 178 x 106 mm • ISBN: 0552149438
Territory: UK C/Wealth + Can, EU • EAN: 9780552149433

 

 

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Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today.He is the acclaimed creator of the Discworld series, the first title of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983: the latest, no. 36, is Making Money. His first Discworld novel for children, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal. Worldwide sales of his books are now 60 million, and they have been translated into 37 languages. Terry Pratchett was knighted for services to literature in 2009.


   
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