num_pages: 260
description: This is the story of the greatest love, ever...And so begins the adventure of J.J. Smith, the keeper of records for The Book of Records, an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. He has verified the longest continuous kiss, the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel, the furthest flight of a champagne cork. Everywhere he goes, record seekers vie for his attention: children gather around him, pogo-jumping hopefully; people implore him to watch them to stand on their heads. But J.J. has a problem: his boss says his records are getting dull. Either he comes up with something special, or he's fired.So J.J. finds himself in Superior, Nebraska, windswept heartland of America, on the trail of a world record attempt like no other. Piece by piece, a farmer named Wally Chubb is rumoured to be eating a Boeing 747 to prove his love for Willa Wyatt, the strong-willed and beguiling editor of the local newspaper, a beauty he has yearned for ever since she was the only guest to turn up at this tenth birthday party.In this vast landscape of cornfields and lightning storms, J.J. is astounded to find himself struck by true love for the first time, throwing his carefully ordered world upside down, proving how hearts, like records, can be broken, and how the greatest wonders of the world cannot be quantified.
language: English
title: The Man Who Ate the 747
titlecomplete: The Man Who Ate the 747
genres: Fiction, Humor, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Love, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Adult, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 1763
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: Picador