Publishing day preterites

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Dennis Jones writes:
>         I can only echo Craig Clark's wail of "lucky,lucky, bastards!" at 
> the prospect of listening to the long-distance rustle of brown paper as 
> Americans by the drove get down to some serious M&D unwrapping.
>         Would I be right in assuming that the UK release date is the same or 
> similar? (Enter my long-suffering brother in blighty, jiffy bag at the 
> ready.)  I've had no joy in engine-searching for Secker'n Warburg so could 
> this mean he's changed his UK publisher again? 
>         Please forgive if this last is all common knowledge but I'm a little 
> out of touch, having been unlisted for some time by burglars at my local 
> server. 

The British 1st Edition is published by Jonathon Cape and is due out
today, Election Day. However, advance orders appear to have been
dispatched since the books were dirstributed to the stores last
week. I got mine last Friday.

I also just heard that my US edition ordered from amazon.com has been
shipped from America and is on its way. It cost $20 for the book with
about $5 to have it shipped. I could have had faster delivery at about
$15 but considered it ridiculous tp pay as much for the shipping as
for the book. If, however, I was unable to access the UK edition I
might well have stumped up the extra dosh for shipping.


Andrew Dinn
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