Another Long Day On The Piste

A Season in the French Alps

Will Randall

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English

Abacus
01 March 2008

Travel & holiday; Travel writing

Now in B format.

Essential apres-ski reading - a self-deprecating and deliriously funny Alpine adventure

Writer, adventurer, ex-teacher and veteran of numerous travel catastrophes, Will Randall has fallen off donkeys in Spain and out of canoes in the Solomon Islands, but none of this has prepared him for a season as a ski-bum with a posse of raucous, hard-drinking ex-students.

In the charming Alpine backwater of Mont St Bernard, Will's adventures start badly when he spends his first night in a freezing garage under a pile of unwashed socks. Dismally unfashionable and hopeless at skiing, he realises he must compete for the attention of the female population with goatee-wearing, lip-studded dudes fifteen years his junior. And then disasters abound during his stint as a chalet girl for a lodge full of American bankers. But when a Russian oligarch - and hair-raising entourage - arrives in the resort and selects Will to tutor his son, rejection and public humiliation could turn out to be the least of Will's worries...

By: Will Randall
Imprint: Abacus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 130mm, Width: 200mm, Spine: 196mm
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 9780349119342
ISBN 10: 0349119341
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 March 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: www.willrandall.co.uk

Will Randall has taught in schools in Devon and London and is the author of SOLOMON TIME, INDIAN SUMMER and BOTSWANA TIME. He is currently in the US writing his next book.

Reviews for Another Long Day On The Piste: A Season in the French Alps

'Unremittingly calamitous, self-deprecating and entertaining' DAILY MAIL SKI + SNOWBOARD 'Highly entertaining . . . there is much pointed irony and satire to enjoy' THE TIMES '...side-splittingly funny... Randall is a gifted raconteur...' FRENCH NEWS 'timely and humorous' DAILY MIRROR 'Droll' SCOTSMAN 'Randall entertains with expertly executed anecdotes about drag lift disasters, the flirtatious lingo of apres-ski and the benefits of a sport that daily reminds you that there is always someone more useless than you - unless of course there isn't ' INDEPENDENT