- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (4 July 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007105975
- ISBN-13: 978-0007105977
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 59,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Bateman has barged fearlessly into the previously unsuspected middle ground between Carl Hiaasen and Irvine Welsh and claimed it for his own’
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A tie-in to a terrific new film, but also a bona-fide Bateman novel in its own right, Wild About Harry tells of the trials and tribulations of a sleazy local chat show host.
This is the story of Harry McKee – sleazy local chat show host. A once loving husband, he’s become a drunken unfaithful slob and even his kids won’t speak to him. His wife is divorcing him and taking him to the cleaners. On his last night as a married man he winds up drunk and is beaten up. When he keels over the next day at the divorce hearing his wife and solicitor assume he’s pulling a fast one. He eventually wakes from a week-long coma but he’s lost his memory – everything since 1974. Inside his sagging middle-aged body he feels eighteen. Though he doesn’t know it yet, Harry has been given the chance to get back his life, his wife and his self-respect. If only he could remember how it all went wrong and why his family hate him. As the pieces of his past slowly begin to fall into place we watch Harry attempt to persuade Ruth to fall in love with him all over again, and witness his failure to resurrect his career. Clinging on to the past, he at least still fits into his teenage tank-top and flares – but he’s only got two weeks until the next divorce hearing, when he will be homeless, childless and clueless!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
While a bit different from his other books well worth the read. It is a quick read, some really good lines and the fact that it is a bit different from the others is refreshing. As to the suggestion of one reviewer to give it a miss I could not disagree more. It is hardly going to take up much of your time, as it is shorter than the others. I read it and Mohammed Maguire in a couple of days and they were a nice contrast. Perhaps being from Ulster helps, though my Welsh other half really enjoyed them. George A
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've read all of the Bateman's books to date - and this was by far the least worthy - with nowhere near any twists and turns approaching classics such assd Divorcing Jack, Empire State or Shooting Sean.
Apparently the book is written somewhat bizarrely after a film had already come out. I can just imagine a rather annoying Robin Williams in the leads role character acting "Harry".
The book meanders on to a rather inevitable conclusion, without any hint of an unforgiving twist (will i ever forgive him for the crushing end in Cycle of Violence).
This is one to miss
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Not up to scratch at all. It has a happy ending!!! No shooting, just a light story with no Bateman kick.
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Published on 11 May 2003
Not one of his best
As a long time reader of Colin Bateman books. This was a major disappointment. The black humour that has been his trademark in past books was not in evidence. All in all. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2002 by Barry Cooke
An excellent read
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Published on 9 Mar 2002 by S. J. Simm
Typically funny Bateman, but slightly below par
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Typically funny Bateman, but slightly below par
This is a typically funny Bateman story, but not a patch on the Dan Starkey books. Definitely worth buying as it is a great deal better than most of the best sellers you will read,... Read more
Published on 8 Nov 2001
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