Coming a little nearer to Scannell's own situation, au pairs have a long, well established and respectable tradition as persons into whom it is OK, even de rigeur, to dip the seigneurial wick. But cleaning ladies. Cleaning women. Deeply suspect to have to admit to employing one, but to look lewdly upon, to have a bit on the side with, to, oh God, fall in love with...' A middle-aged professor is thrown into confusion when his cleaning lady offers an unusual service; fellow travellers on a train make some intimate connections; a respectable writer's life is invaded by obscene communications from a rogue fax machine; a man loses his lover unexpectedly, only to find that she has left him a distressingly tactile souvenir. Even the page on which a computer prints out can be infiltrated by alien parasites with a startling lack of warning. Andrew Davies, author of Getting Hurt and A Very Peculiar Practice, is uncannily well acquainted with the frailties and peculiarities of humans, machines and even baboons...In this new collection of wry, racy stories Andrew Davies writes with a cutting wit and a mastery of the sudden reversal reminiscent of Saki.
But this is unmistakably a book for the high-tech nineties.
- ISBN10 0413632709
- ISBN13 9780413632708
- Publish Date 25 October 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English