Paperback, uitgave 2002, 160 blz. in kleur. Engelstalig. Hoekje kaft 'gekneusd'; verder in goede staat. Verzendkosten (€ 4,35 bezorging thuis OF € 3,85 ophalen DHL-punt) zijn voor de koper. [E]
Extravagantly marking the trauma of his fiftieth birthday with the aquisition of a garishly yellow Morgan sports car, Michael Pearson embarks on a sequence of exploratory and nostalgic journeys in the Midlands, visiting places he's always wanted to see yet lacked the time, or revisiting places that have shaped his life from boyhood, by way of adolescence into maturity. Searching for signposts that may, inadvertently, have been missed along the way, he hopes that the journeys he makes might provide clues as to where he is going in the fifteen years left to him before he collects his bus pass! Sad, funny; brave, cowardly; perceptive, clueless; equally charming and boorish; Pearson writes for posterity as much as for a generation of post-war children for whom the 21st Century stretches ahead like an alien landscape. Slim wonder that he, like many of us, should do a U turn into the comfort of the past - less L.P.Hartley's 'foreign country', more Betjeman's comfortable haven of 'a world of trains and buttered toast'. A George Bowling figure, 'coming up for air', Pearson's wild goose chase uncovers the ultimate truth that it isn't so much that you should never go back, but that when you do go back you should do so as flamboyantly as possible.
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