4 a.m.
ISBN-13: 9780956559951
Contributor(s): Nina De La Mer
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Myriad Editions
Publication Date: 26-08-2011
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£8.99
About the book
A sharply drawn depiction of friendship under pressure, Nina de la Mer's startling debut channels the voices of two army chefs struggling to reconcile life on base with the off-duty temptations of the rave scene - with comic and poignant consequences. Set in the early 1990s on a British army base, 4 a.m. tells the story of Cal and Manny, soldiers posted to Germany as army chefs. Bored and institutionalised, the pair soon succumb to the neon temptations of Hamburg's red-light district...