- 2003 edition, 232 pages
- Published by Phoenix
- Paperback, Format B
- Very good condtion, near new
A richly comic, superbly imagined black tale.
Keith lives with his brothers, Tam and Cameron, his Da, who is a sheep farmer, and his Mam, who wants to flee to Albania.
Keith knows he has to escape from his humdrum existence - he can't keep sweeping up budgies from his neighbour's aviary for ever. But with no qualifications, no girlfriend and only his rusty old telescope and the nightly reports of the Mission to Mars probe on BBC2 to take him away from it all, his options look limited.
Powder Monkey is rocket ships in the sky and amateur astronomy, it's sheep shit and lager and no way out. With its astutely drawn characters and heightened sense of the absurd, it marks the arrival of a formidable literary talent.
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