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      Spinners

      by Anthony McCarten
      Published
      Feb 1999
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      A forthcoming feature film from the makers of Shakespeare in Love'A beautifully constructed comedy'Esquire, Books of the Year'Delia Chapman, a sixteen-year-old meat-packer sees a spaceman. Soon, news of the encounter has spread all over Opunake, arousing the secrets and desires of the inhabitants of this tiny, isolated, yet media-saturated, New Zealand town . . . Spinners combines the cultural savvy of an episode of The Simpsons with the formally meticulous confusion/resolution of a Shakespeare comedy'Times Literary Supplement'McCarten's dramatic gifts - with characterisation, plot, dialogue and humour - shine through this sparkling novel'Observer'An impressive novel full of alien abductions and small town neuroses . . . Weird, witty and wonderful'Mirror

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      Apr 2000 Picador (UK) ISBN13 9780330390484 ISBN10 0330390481
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      Aug 2000 HarperPerennial ISBN13 9780688179045 ISBN10 0688179045
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      Oct 2008 Alma Books ISBN13 9781846880353 ISBN10 1846880351
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      First Edition Feb 1999 William Morrow ISBN13 9780688163037 ISBN10 0688163033
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