Tony Hawks
Autore di Mr Fridge: l'Irlanda in autostop con un frigo
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Opere di Tony Hawks
Opere correlate
It's Not What You Know: Series 5 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Hawks, Tony
- Nome legale
- Hawksworth, Antony Gordon
- Data di nascita
- 1960-05-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School, England, UK
Brighton College, Brighton, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- comedian
songwriter
author
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 3,114
- Popolarità
- #8,208
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 88
- ISBN
- 68
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 10
When a skiing trip goes wrong and spurred on by the knowledge that one of his friends already owns a house in the country, Hawks impulsively buys a house in the French Pyrenees. Soon enough, he has to set about moving himself and his piano to the continent.
The problem is that the idea behind the book is pretty mundane, something any one of us could probably do, finances and desire permitting. This meant that I couldn't entirely trust what I was being told, that he hadn't felt the need to add his own comic twist and exaggerate. Whilst I enjoyed parts of this book, his attempts to move the piano to France in a van immediately springs to mind, at the same time it felt forced or more accurately part of a stand up routine. I found it refreshing that he tried to integrate himself into the native community with all its cultural mix-ups rather than simply mix with fellow ex-pats.
I enjoyed Hawks writing and I read large parts of it with a smile on my face but ultimately I only found this an OK read.… (altro)