
ABOUT THIS BOOK
PUBLISHER: Canongate Books
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781841956893
RRP: £10.99
PAGES: 496
PUBLICATION DATE:
September 1, 2005
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The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant
Pablo Tusset
Kristina Cordero
An easy-riding, ball-busting comedy of bad manners, this is one of the most surprising and entertaining literary debuts of recent years. Pablo Baloo Miralles, a fat, useless and flatulent thirty-year-old, is the black sheep of his obscenely wealthy family. While he dedicates his days to online philosophy chatrooms and his nights to whatever pleasures he can find, his brother, ‘The First,’ is president of his booming family business. But, when ‘The First’ suddenly disappears, Pablo finds himself being sucked into a hair-raising, mind-bending adventure – an adventure in which he must use all of his well-honed survival instincts to come out alive.
Reviews of The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant
"Here we are in the gross world of 'lad-lit'…funny and original…" The Independent "A perfect salute to imperfection. This isn't a book, it's a month of Friday nights out." DBC Pierre "Frequently tasteless but quite delicious" Metro "Pablo Tusset reels you in from paragraph one…a rollicking chase tale." The Scotsman "Hilarious, raunchy and pungently aphoristic" The Times "A comic masterpiece" Ladsmag "Funny, inventive and irreverent" Daily Mail "A cult in the making…" The Herald"
Pablo Tusset
PABLO TUSSET, born in Barcelona in 1965, abandoned a comfortable future as a literary critic to dedicate himself to writing. The Best Thing that can Happen to a Croissant is his first novel.