The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years
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| Author | Paul Howard |
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| Illustrator | Alan Clarke |
| Cover artist | Alan Clarke |
| Language | English |
| Series | Ross O'Carroll-Kelly |
| Genre | comic novel, satire |
| Set in | Dublin, 2000–2001 |
| Publisher | The O'Brien Press |
Publication date | 7 March 2003 |
| Publication place | Republic of Ireland |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 0-86278-809-9 |
| 823.92 | |
| Preceded by | Roysh Here, Roysh Now… The Teenage Dirtbag Years |
| Followed by | PS, I Scored The Bridesmaids |
The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years is a 2003 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, and the third in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.[1][2][3]
The title refers to the Sue Townsend novel Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, as well as The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe and the orange mocha frappuccino drink ordered by three male models in the film Zoolander.
Howard wrote The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years in autumn 2002, intending it to be the last novel in the series. The idea of making Ross an estate agent came to Howard after shopping for a house himself and being offered a modest house for IR£750,000 by a very young estate agent.[4]
A Moscow publisher aimed to publish The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years in Russian translation, but Howard struggled to explain the Irish cultural references. The translator wanted to change Ross to a basketball player instead of rugby; the Russian edition was never published.[5]
