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Patrick Doyle, a Glasgow schoolteacher drowning in despair, can no longer control his students or his life and retreats into the world of corrugated cardboard pipes--a musical sanctuary of his own invention.
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5 editions- Other · English · 2012DisaffectionPenguin Random House · 352 pages · 9781448104857
- Other · English · 1999Penguin Random House · 352 pages · 9780099283096
- Other · English · 1990Picador · 337 pages · 9780330307369
- Other · English · 1989Secker & Warburg · 337 pages · 9780436232848
- Other · English · 1989Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 337 pages · 9780374140243
English fictionScotland, fictionTeachers, fictionFiction, general