Seeds of Greatness - Hardcover

Canter, Jon

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224077732 ISBN 13: 9780224077736

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2006

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In the hilarious story of a man writing the biography of his deceased friend, David asks himself why he failed in life and why his friend succeeded. David thinks that by writing about Jack, he’ll get him out of his system, but in fact, he’ll never be free of Jack.

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About the Author:

Jon Canter was born in 1953 and grew up in Golders Green. His father was a solicitor and his mother a housewife. He studied law at Cambridge before becoming an advertising copyriter then a TV and radio scriptwriter. Among the comedians he's worked with are Lenny Henry, Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, Dawn French, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. He lives in Suffolk with his wife, the painter Helen Napper, and their daughter Nancy. Seeds of Greatness is his first novel.

Review:

"He is arguably the finest comic novelist working in Britain today. Indeed, he may just be finest comic anything working in Britain right now... Canter's prose is achingly funny...it is also vital, acute, literary and oddly moving." -- James Kidd * Independent * "Jon Canter is a north London Woody Allen. I haven't laughed so much in years - and then I realised that I had felt and thought hard too" -- Carole Angier * Independent * "A wise cracking monologue... laugh-a-line funny but in the tradition of jewish humour, [it] touches a serious issue" -- John Sutherland * Financial Times * "A very funny, intelligent novel about being a failure" * Guardian * "Well observed, warm humour... perfect parody" -- Andrew Collins * The Times *

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