Imprint: Arcadia
Format: C Format
ISBN: 978-1-906413-07-1
Price: £ 12.99
Pages: 784 pp
Date: June 2009
‘Beatles was Christensen’s breakthrough book, achieving enormous success in Norway. It launched him on the journey to the pre-eminence he now enjoys, and which has spread throughout Europe with his best-selling family epic The Half Brother’ Paul Binding Independent
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Beatles
Lars-Saabye Christensen (About this author)
Translated by the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
Arcadia Books is delighted to introduce the fourth novel into English by Norwegian writer Lars Saabye Christensen.
‘Beatles is the story of Kim Karlsen and his three buddies, Gunnar, Ola and Seb – and, yes, they occasionally like to think of themselves as the Fab Four. They were born in 1951, and the story starts with the first wave of Beatlemania in Norway, in the spring of 1965. Each chapter tales a different Beatles song (or, near the end, post-Beatles solo songs) as its title and theme – all the way through the winter of 1972. There’s drinking (lots of it), football, some love-fumblings (Kim has two girlfriends that he has to semi-juggle) and the sort of minor adventures that are part of growing up. Beatles is a well-written account of a generation, and of growing up in a specific time. It feels very real’ The Complete Review
More Books by this Author:
Herman
The Half Brother
The Model
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