Proper Job, by Ian Hocking
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In Cornwall, Andy Carrick is trying to hold down a summer job before leaving for university. The crimp in his plan arrives in breathtaking form: Penelope Brown, heiress to the Brown's Ice Cream empire. Before long Andy finds himself in the surprisingly dangerous role of ice-cream man.
To reach university unscathed, he'll need to cope with his best friend, Doogie, who might have taken a shine to Penelope; and his new boss, Big Jeff, whose belly shakes like a bowl full of jelly when he screams, "You're fired!" Then there's Old Boy, whose real name no one can remember.
This is a novel about a boy, a girl, long queues, and a total eclipse of the sun.
Beach-time reading will never be the same again.
Proper Job, by Ian Hocking- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 341 minutes
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Clever writing and the perils of ice cream distribution By Debra Hamel Seventeen-year-old Andy Carrick is spending the summer before he goes off (maybe) to college ineptly wooing a girl from his past and working--often ineptly as well--alongside his friends Doogie and Old Boy. (The latter is so named because--shades of Seinfeld's Mulva episode--Andy didn't catch his name when they first met and had too soon "passed that conversational Rubicon beyond which it is simply no longer cricket to re-enquire what your new friend is called.") In their quest to hold down a job for more than a day without getting fired, the trio find themselves in increasingly unlikely, often quite dangerous situations. The bulk of the story has to do with their stint as ice cream men, a more hazardous profession, apparently, than most of us would assume going in.As usual, Hocking's prose is crisp and clever:"His hair was a dandelion of grey, each hair statically repelled from its neighbour.""Then he sprinted into the building with the desperate scramble of a father who has left his infant daughter in a receding taxi."It is also very English, which is to say that the occasional sentence may leave American readers baffled: "I nodded to indicate that, indeed, I was still at the crease, and any googlie Big Jeff sent my way would dispatched to silly mid-off in short order."Cricket, that, I gather.The story proceeds at a breakneck pace, with amusing scenes piled on one another. But I would have preferred to take things a bit more slowly, with more time to linger on the characters and perhaps even the romance side of things: the book is more about the working than the wooing, it turns out. That said, I enjoyed seeing this romantic comedy side of Hocking and would like to see more should he take a break from sci fi in future.[Disclaimer: since reading Hocking's novel Déjà Vu: A Technothriller (The Saskia Brandt Series Book One) I have become virtually friendly with the author, and so am not entirely un-biassed.]-- Debra Hamel
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Very funny, really enjoyed it By Ann M The characters are all very well depicted, especially the narrator, Andy. Some of the story was just hilarious, and all of it was very well written. I think my favorite parts were the shrinkwrapping scene (although I have worked on one of those and came to the same conclusion about it being a two person job) and also the dog racing part. I am laughing just thinking about it. When I started reading this, I did sometimes get lost with the differences between British English and American English but it didn't hamper my ability to enjoy the story. I have never read anything by this author before but will be reading more. i really liked this one. Very funny.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Really funny By Dandoug A genuinly funny book, and humour I believe is the hardest genre to write.Typical British humour and typical adolescent boys.The charcters are well portrayed and you get to like them all, even Jeff "Your fired" the ice cream entrepeneur.But mainly read it because it's really funny.
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