Find Play Things Compiled By Peter Prince Rendered As Textbook

hero of Play Things recently graduated and landed a job at a top architectural firm, but, he says, “I got tired, ” Now hes dropped out, grown his hair long and taken a job as a playleader at an adventure playground, But he quickly discovers that the job isnt quite what hed expected, The kids are violent thugs, even criminals, and the playground is a haven for thieves, perverts, and drug dealers, As the ineffectual playleader finds himself mixed up rather comically in their bizarre and dangerous schemes, it starts to look as though the summer will prove not to be about finding himself, but about finding a way to survive.


Compellingly readable, very funny, and unexpectedly moving, Peter Princes critically acclaimed first novel, Play Things , won the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award, This edition, the first in nearly forty years, includes a new foreword by the author,

“An agreeably readable first novel, . . lighthearted throughout, and altogether the book is a promising beginning to Mr Princes career as a novelist, ” J. G. Farrell, The Listener

“Mr Prince is absolutely first class, His short book grips as a story, . . exciting, relevant,

a wholesale gift for the topnotch department, ” Oswell Blakeston, Books and Bookmen

“A newcomer who looks worth watching, . . Prince contrives to make his hero entirely sympathetic, . . he creates an air of hope and human potential, and you feel a surge of sheer affection for this notsonull figure, ” The Guardian Peter Prince is a British novelist, He was born in England and studied in America, His first novel Play Things won the Somerset Maugham Award in, He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special for his work on theBBC miniseries Oppenheimer, .