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  • Pleasure Island
    Pete Byrne
    'Pleasure Island' is a novel based on a nearly 35-year working life in the madness, absurdity and surprisingly rewarding bureaucratic world of a late 20th Century American corporation. Our Hero, of sorts, is an utterly inauspicious candidate for management. After 14-years as an hourly worker on rotating shift-work, he makes his first move of many, discovering quickly that he’s ...
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    27,92 €

  • Nothing To Write Home About
    Pete Byrne
    'Nothing to Write Home About' is a lightly fictionalized memoir of a now distant period of recent American History, 'The Cold War.' In mid-1950s America, a rite of male passage was a couple of years of non-threatening, peacetime military service. By 1955, the war in Korea was two years past and Vietnam was still just a name. For the author, then aged eighteen, the Army offered ...
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    22,32 €

  • Tell Them I’m Not Home
    Pete Byrne
    'Tell Them I’m Not Home' is a lightly fictionalized memoir of growing up in the Olney section of North Philadelphia in the decade following World War II, a place not unlike Jean Shepherd’s Hammond, Indiana of a decade earlier. The close-quarters life in a blue-collar neighborhood of row-house streets provided the author with a cast of characters, many funny, some scary, as well...
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    22,62 €