Para Handy
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781874744023
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Modern fiction; Short stories; Literary Criticism; Fiction - General; British Isles; LIT; LIT004120; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary
First sentence: A SHORT, thick-set man, with a red beard, a hard round felt hat, ridiculously out of harmony with a blue pilot jacket and trousers and a seaman's jersey, his hands immersed deeply in those pockets our fathers (and the heroes of Rabelais) used to wear behind a front flap, he would have attracted my notice even if he had not, unaware of my presence so close behind him, been humming to himself the chorus of a song that used to be very popular on gabbarts1, but is now gone out of date, like "The Captain with the Whiskers took a Sly Glance at Me".