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From the author of the acclaimed novel The Trick of It and the creator of the stage/screen hit Noises Off comes the hilarious story of an unscrupulous, womanizing London politician who meets his match in the person of a woman who despises everything he stands for.
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Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London.
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In his seventh novel, Frayn tilts at the windmills of the British civil service and the dissident pressure groups that it spawns. His protagonist Terry confides, "I haven't got many qualifications for running a political campaign. I'm an ignorant bastard." What Terry can do is ask embarrassing questions, often staging public hijinks to entice media coverage and, to vary the pace, indulging in sexual escapades (giving the lie to his 61 years). Terry's office explodes when Hilary, a civil servant, hands over the document he's been seeking--and herself as well. Disillusioned, she chucks her career and joins The Campaign, creating havoc in the already chaotic office. Although Frayn uses an odd first-person style to narrate the tale, each character thinks and speaks so distinctively that keeping track is scarcely a problem. Unlike his Landing on the Sun ( LJ 1/92), which also pilloried the civil service but was hauntingly sad, this is a macho romp that any anglophile will enjoy as much for its wit as for its rueful portrayal of the servants of Her Majesty. For all readers who enjoy robust farce.
- Barbara Conaty, Library of Congress
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0140232354
- ISBN 13 9780140232356
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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