The third part of Neil Campbell’s Manchester Trilogy, in which our
struggling young writer finds love with a girl called Cho. Where a
love song to Manchester becomes a love song to Cho. Lanyards explores
how the jobs we wear around our necks dictate the ways we are
identified. Building on the previous novel in the trilogy, Zero Hours,
our protagonist finds himself on universal credit, taking agency jobs,
moving from learning support work in schools and colleges to call
centre jobs and back again, via a failed attempt at getting a job as a
driver on the Metrolink tram network. Lanyards portrays the comic and
poignant moments of working life. All the time reflecting back on the
football career the narrator might have had were he not injured, his
life as a writer, his experiences of being in a mixed race couple with
the Hong Kong born Cho, the Manchester Arena bombing, the continuing
success of his beloved Manchester City, the child sex abuse scandals
in football, the disparities of wealth in contemporary Britain, and
the death of a childhood friend that continues to haunt him.
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ISBN
9781784631710
Publisert
2019
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Salt
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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