Linger Awhile - Softcover

Russell Hoban

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747579849 ISBN 13: 9780747579847

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

Synopsis

Linger Awhile

About this title

About the Author:

Russell Hoban is the author of many extraordinary novels including Turtle Diary, Riddley Walker, Amaryllis Night and Day, The Bat Tattoo, Her Name Was Lola and, most recently, Come Dance With Me. He has also written some classic books for children including The Mouse and his Child and the Frances books. He lives in London.

From Booklist:

Cult favorite Hoban is the author of both children's books about badgers and adult books about aging horndogs. This one's about Irving Goodman, an 83-year-old Londoner who falls in love with 25-year-old Western movie star Justine Trimble. Unfortunately, Trimble died way back in the black-and-white era. A technologically gifted friend, Istvan Fallok, uses a screen capture to bring Trimble back to life, but there's a catch: she needs continual infusions of blood to keep her healthy color. Catch two: now Fallok wants the vampire cowgirl, too. It's an amusing, intelligent read, part science fiction (the way Vonnegut wrote it), part police procedural, part farce. Despite the adult subject matter, the same qualities that inform Hoban's kids' stuff are in evidence: succinctness and a sense of the seriousness of play. There's plenty of food for thought about the arbitrariness of affection, though it's well tempered with questions like, "How fucking old does a man have to be before he stops being an adolescent?" To which Irving replies, "A dirty old man is the only kind of old man there is." Graff, Keir

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0747579849
• ISBN 13: 9780747579847
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1