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A Blink of the Screen
- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 11 October 2012
- Run Time
- 8 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
A brilliant collection of short stories and short form fiction from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, one of the world's best-loved authors.
A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the Discworld series.
Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.
With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.
'Clever, neatly constructed and funny … Pratchett is one of the great comic writers and storytellers of our time' Guardian
© Terry Pratchett 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2012
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Clever, neatly constructed and funny…Pratchett is one of the great comic writers and storytellers of our time
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Details
- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- Narrator
- Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Duration
- 8 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 October 2012
- ISBN
- 9781448127115
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Short stories, Adventure / action fiction, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A brilliant collection of short stories and short form fiction from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, one of the world's best-loved authors.A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the Discworld series.Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.'Clever, neatly constructed and funny … Pratchett is one of the great comic writers and storytellers of our time' Guardian© Terry Pratchett 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2012
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