This week my teaser lines come from Last Orders by Graham Swift (1996). I'm reading it for the Battle of the Prizes (British Version) Reading Challenge; it's the only book to win both the Booker and the James Tait Black prizes, the two awards the challenge is built around. I've just started the book, so I really don't know much about what's going on in this snippet from page 71:A good motor is a comfort and companion and an asset to a man, as well as getting him from A to B. I can't speak for women. Mandy drives like it's nothing special, like a car is a handbag. But a good motor deserves respect....Well, I know he wouldn't understand, but some of us (women) tend to think a good handbag can be a comfort and an asset, too. And some of those handbags cost almost as much as a motor car these days! Like this one I'm drooling over.
Now if I just had an extra twelve thousand bucks lying around somewhere!
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Definitely a guy's point of view.
ReplyDeleteI must be a weird girl, because I would pick my car over a purse any day! But that is a nice looking bag...
ReplyDeleteMy TT this week is about personal finance: http://ksbooks.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/teaser-tuesday-56/
Yep, definitely a guy's perspective! Love the Hermes! You are right -- the handbag costs as much as some cars but I love the color!
ReplyDeleteGreat teaser. I think it depends on the car though, some I've been more attached to than others.
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