Dog Days, Glenn Miller Nights
by Laurie Graham | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0552997595 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0552997595 Global Overview for this book
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by catburglar from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, February 8, 2008
Came in a box of books from Molyneux
From the Back Cover
'They like it if you're marvellous for your age. If you can't be that, they want you down Plaistow Crematorium, not hanging about here, taking up bus seats.'
On the seventh floor of an East End high-rise, Birdie Gibbs lives on chocolate bars and yearns for action, or at least for the reopening of the old Imperial dance hall, where she used to have good times. One of her ex-husbands, Jimmy Dwyer, turns up from nowhere with a greyhound that needs a temporary home, then disappears again. Seeing Jimmy revives memories of the War, when Birdie and her friends did their bit. She still does her bit today, though the world around her doesn't make much sense.
When the Fruit Bowl Estate boils over in the summer of 95 and police leave is cancelled, Birdie gets all the action she can handle. More even than the night Hitler bombed Beckton gas works.
'They like it if you're marvellous for your age. If you can't be that, they want you down Plaistow Crematorium, not hanging about here, taking up bus seats.'
On the seventh floor of an East End high-rise, Birdie Gibbs lives on chocolate bars and yearns for action, or at least for the reopening of the old Imperial dance hall, where she used to have good times. One of her ex-husbands, Jimmy Dwyer, turns up from nowhere with a greyhound that needs a temporary home, then disappears again. Seeing Jimmy revives memories of the War, when Birdie and her friends did their bit. She still does her bit today, though the world around her doesn't make much sense.
When the Fruit Bowl Estate boils over in the summer of 95 and police leave is cancelled, Birdie gets all the action she can handle. More even than the night Hitler bombed Beckton gas works.
Journal Entry 3 by catburglar at -- Birmingham City Centre in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, February 17, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (2/20/2008 UTC) at -- Birmingham City Centre in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
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next day i find another book from this amazing chain!!!! i just love it
(María, Spain-feb'08)
CAUGHT IN BIRMINGHAM (CITY CENTRE) WEST MIDLANDS ENGLAND
(María, Spain-feb'08)
CAUGHT IN BIRMINGHAM (CITY CENTRE) WEST MIDLANDS ENGLAND