Surviving Sting
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ISBN: 0953589544
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Surviving Sting by Paul McDonald
Hilarious and sharply realistic, Sting's a superb comic take on growing up fast in 1970s Walsall
'Very funny, very crude, very Walsall'
'Ace Face' wannabe Dave 'Mac' McVane think he's got it made. At the Friday night disco luscious Joolz, the most shaggable girl in Walsall, invites him to her home on the notorious Jerome K. Jerome estate. But will the woman of his dreams and a 'real' saddlemaker's job in the Happy Stallion make Mac the man he wants to be?
If only the demented Billy-Bob and his twizzler parents, a boy named Sue, a pet scorpion and an overdressed Yorkshire terrier weren't messing up his plans …
'Surviving Sting, a tale of love, violence and an eponymous scorpion, set in late-Seventies Walsall, is a wholly unpretentious, humorous and easy read' The Times
'McDonald's tale of growing up rough in the 1970s never leaves the mud to claw at the stars and it's all the better for it. As a voice from the Black Country it's as authentic as Baltis and Banks Bitter.' Time Out
'It's raunchy, rude and violent.' Sunday Mercury