Gridlock by Ben Elton - ISBN: 9780552773560
Paperback
Freedom machine turned killer? They know who, but can’t escape.

Gridlock

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    2 January 2006

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Summary

Too many cars and not enough space equals gridlock. Gridlock is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this? How did the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, in somebody else’s gravy train? Deborah and Geoffrey know, but they have transport problems of their own, and anyway, whoever it was that murdere…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780552773560
ISBN-10:0552773565
Author:Ben Elton
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Black Swan
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:2 January 2006
Weight:311g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 27mm
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Critics Review

Important, topical and politically resonant

Important, topical and politically resonant * Guardian *
Combines passionate espousal of a cause with the machine-gun narration of a stand-up comic, peppered with good jokes and with the energetically managed, funny and violent action of a manic strip cartoon * Evening Standard *
The book is stuffed with funny lines and the lot is more gripping than any tyre advertisement * New Scientist *

About The Author

Ben Elton

Ben Elton’s multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers. He is married and has three children.

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