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Racing pigs and giant marrows : travels around the North Country fairs
Pearson, Harry, 1961-2003
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Pearson recreates the world of agricultural shows and the people who attend them. Pearson's first book - The Far Corner - was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Following his acclaimed book about football in the north-east,THE FAR CORNER, Harry Pearson vowed that his next project would not involve hanging around outdoors on days so cold that itinerant dogs had to be detached from lamp-posts by firemen. It would be about the summer: specifically, about a summer of shows and fairs in the north of England.Encompassing such diverse talents as fell-running, tupperware-boxing and rabbit fancying (literally), and containing many more jokes about goats than is legal in the Isle of Man, Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows is without doubt the only book in existence to explain the design faults of earwigs and expose English farmers' fondness for transvestism. Warm, wise and very funny, it confirms increasing suspicions that Harry Pearson is really quite good.
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London : Abacus, 2003.
Collation:
xi, 226 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm.
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Other title: North Country fair
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Originally published: as North Country fair. London: Little, Brown, 1996.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780349109466 (pbk)
Dewey class:
630.9427
LC class:
S557.G7
Language:
English
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BRN:
1011895