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Product ID:	9780099472339
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	'54
Authors:	Author: Wu Ming, Shaun Whiteside
Page Count:	560
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Description:	Select Guide Rating And in Bologna, Pierre Capponi, a lovelorn young barman, is about to embark on a painful odyssey in search of his missing father, one that will end up taking him half-way around the world. And bringing together all these strands and more is a missing television set, a McGuffin Electric, an appliance with a very special secret... The year: 1954, the height of the Cold War. The world is divided into East and West. In Naples, mafioso Lucky Luciano and his Mafia minions are busy fixing horse-races, and overseeing the creation of the global heroin trade. In Hollywood, some members of Her Majesty''s Secret Service have a dangerous mission for the supremely elegant actor Cary Grant. And in Bologna, Pierre Capponi, a lovelorn young barman, is about to embark on a painful odyssey in search of his missing father, one that will end up taking him half-way around the world. And bringing together all these strands and more is a missing television set, a McGuffin Electric, an appliance with a very special secret...
Imprint Name:	Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher Name:	Cornerstone
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2006-04-06

Weight	396 g
Dimensions	196 × 129 × 35 mm