Blast from the Past - Softcover

Elton, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552998338 ISBN 13: 9780552998338

Publisher: Transworld Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone. Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong. Only someone bad would call at such an hour. Or someone good, but with bad news, which would probably be worse. You lie there in the darkness and wait for the answer machine to kick in. Your own voice sounds strange as it tells you that nobody is there but that a message can be left. You feel your heart beat. You listen. And then you hear the one voice in the world you least expect . . . your very own Blast From the Past.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

low Nick Hornsby and Helen Fielding as the next big thing from Cool Britannia to hit America is Ben Elton. Already known to a wide public television audience as the funnyman behind Blackadder, The Young Ones, and The Thin Blue Line, Elton, author of Popcorn, lights up the literary sky with Blast from the Past.

Part noir thriller, part hilarious send-up of the politics of extremism, Blast from the Past is the new novel from English comedy phenomenon (stand-up, playwright, television writer, and author) Ben Elton--a name soon to be known in all circles once Joel Schumacher's film of his book Popcorn reaches the silver screen.

In the early 80s, when Polly was a seventeen-year-old ideological peace protestor and Jack was a U.S. Army captain stationed at England's Greenham Common, the two had a secret and very unlikely affair. No two people could have had more to argue about, save that they couldn't live

From the Back Cover:

Praise from the UK for Blast from the Past:

"The action is tight and well-plotted, the dialogue is punchy, and the whole thing rolls along so nicely."
--The Guardian

"Ben Elton's in top form with this gripping black comedy--a sure-fire hit."
--New Woman

"A lively thriller of sexual politics and morality. Elton's best book yet."
--Elle

"Blast from the Past is Elton at his most outrageously entertaining."
--Cosmopolitan

About this edition

• Publisher: Transworld Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0552998338
• ISBN 13: 9780552998338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362