In-flight entertainment
By: Helen Simpson
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Chivers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bath [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781408492536; 9781408492543
Subjects: Large type books; English Short stories
Description: "Offers acute portraits of lives in transition: of changes for the better, lives stalled and in freefall; of love, loss, and sudden revelations. Two second-year students fall in love then almost talk themselves out of it in an argument about the end of the world; a fugitive's diary records desperate action taken by a young woman in her struggle towards a new life in Russia; four semi-naked teenagers scare themselves witless when they trespass on an intimate tableau; a trapped squirrel performs a vanishing act in a tale about tyranny and the hardening off of young plants."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape.

"A collection of short stories"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Up at the villa; title: In-flight entertainment; title: Squirrel; title: Ahead of the pack; title: Scan; title: I'm sorry but i'll have to let you go; title: Sorry?; title: In the driver's seat; title: Tipping poiny; title: Geography boy; title: Channel 17; title: Homework; title: Festival of the immortals; title: Diary of an interesting year; title: Charm for a friend with a lump.; title: Up at a villa; title: I'm sorry but I'll have to let you go; title: Tipping point; title: The festival of the immortals