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Ned Beauman - Madness is Better than Defeat, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Madness is Better than Defeat

'Beauman writes with rare and bizarre brilliance' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Av Ned Beauman

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'Dazzling . . . his best to date' Spectator'A novel of great intelligence and humour, cleverly structured and brimming with tricks . . . a tremendous rainbow' New StatesmanIn 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns that both expeditions are still out in the wilderness, he embarks on a mission to exploit the temple as a geopolitical pawn. But the mission hurtles towards disaster when he discovers that the temple is the locus of grander conspiracies than anyone could have guessed.'Wildly plotted, comedic . . . triumphant' Financial Times'Beauman has a gift: he's a natural comic writer' Guardian
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-05-17
  • Mått: 154 x 198 x 29 mm
  • Vikt: 292 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 416
  • Förlag: Hodder & Stoughton
  • ISBN: 9781473613614
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Ned Beauman is the author of Boxer, Beetle, winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction Book and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction; The Teleportation Accident, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and a Somerset Maugham Award; the highly acclaimed Glow and Madness is Better Than Defeat; and, most recently, Venomous Lumpsucker, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He lives in London.

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Dazzling . . . his best to date . . . If there is one adjective that describes Beauman's prose it is 'buoyant' - a quality which allows the reader to get through a long book with little effort, and the author to carry the considerable heft of his intelligence lightly. And it is a roaming intelligence.

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