- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: Soft Editions Ltd (2 Feb 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843501007
- ISBN-13: 978-1843501008
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,026,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"When 15,000 children are starving to death every day is it legitimate to do nothing? When a businessman becomes a tyrant with no redeeming features is it justifiable to kill him? No? Not even if he threatens to demolish your football club to build a new print works for his newspaper? These are questions Arthur Polianski, photocopier salesman, must face up to after receiving? bad news? from his doctor. Spurred into action, Arthur investigates Billy Petersen?s background and finds that the destruction of Athletic Football Club is only a minor misdemeanor in the catalogue of his crimes. But how to stop him? The solution seems obvious. Extreme, angry, funny, absurd and ultimately very human, Arthur is a great comic hero, the embodiment of all of us who have been put upon and who have dreamed of fighting back."
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5.0 out of 5 stars
GET A MOVE ON!,
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This review is from: Tombola (Paperback)
GET A MOVE ON!
Read "Tombola" right now. Read it as fast as you can. Swallowing it whole is the only way to take in this magical ride through dimensions of time, space, politics, globalism, media, revenge, friendship and wish fulfilment. "Tombola" is the name of a newspaper owned by a tycoon who deserves to die before he destroys a football club that lies at the heart of an unnamed community in the north of England. His self-appointed assassin is the book's protagonist, Arthur Polianski whose own race against time is accelerated when he gets a death sentence from his doctor. "Tombola" is so crammed with clichés, and at the same time so unique, that if you pause for a moment's thought and consider whether the target of an assassin would always leave the same club ahead of his bodyguards at the same time each night, or whether "chuffing" is an effective substitute for the more common four-letter epithet, you'll be lost. The book is filled with tales of friendship so intense and loyal that Arthur's numerous pals risk going to prison many times over for their roles in planning, training and executing his various crimes and in harbouring him when he's on the run. His uncomplaining wife Bangkok Rose never emerges as fully human but instead remains loyal to him in his supernaturally-aided travels across three continents, except of course when she is at the gaming tables. All the friends, in all of the countries described in tints ranging from the dingy grey of Murmansk to the stellar majesty of Moroccan desert nights, remain loyal to Arthur despite his lunatic rants when he vents his anger over life's injustices straight at them. He gets away with it. Always. The central motif of "Tombola" is boyish wish-fulfilment. If only your enemies were really bad people through and through. If only you could shoot them down in cold blood and, unlike Billy Liar, really get away with it and have loads of weird and wondrous friends who start by calling you "mate" and end by calling you "boss" without any hint of resentment. If only your woman would never put her foot down when you did something daft, but would grumblingly follow you to the ends of the earth and watch vigilantly for your enemies at every turn. If only. But hey, what's life without wishes? If you are in a book group, ask your group to read this book. They'll be arguing all evening, but most of them, like Bangkok Rose, will grudgingly admit in the end that Arthur is crazily, magically lovable. Twenty years from now, readers will still be debating whether this book is "literature" in the same way that twenty years ago they shouted at each other about whether the splashes of Jackson Pollock were "art". Arthur is its first-person narrator. It is him you'll want to throttle. It's Arthur who occupies a niche inside my inner child, and you'll find that he is in yours, too. Don't dither, don't delay. Buy it. Open it. Gulp it down.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I loved this book,
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This review is from: Tombola (Paperback)
I loved this book. It even invented a new word - to
Billywhack someone. Apparently it means to assassinate a corrupt politician or a crooked businessman - in this case, it seems, a media tycoon. Someone should write to the etymologists or the dictionary people to tell them so that when Billywhack becomes an accepted term people will know where it came from.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This book is a gem,
By Arthur P (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tombola (Paperback)
I think this book is a little gem, punching well above its weight. It could be one of those rare books that by word of mouth goes on to become a cult fiction classic.
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