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British life since World War II is vividly illuminated through the lives and fortunes of Leslie Titmuss and the people of the village of Rapstone Fanner
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John Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and barrister. He was knighted for his services to the arts in 1998, and died in 2009. The Rapstone Trilogy - consisting of Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets - captured the Thatcher years perfectly with its enthralling tale of the rise of Tory MP Leslie Titmuss.
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Class is also at the core of John Mortimer's Paradise Postponed: the ironies are naked and the comedy acid. The novel portrays the unedifying struggle between the upper-middle class and the lower-middle class, in the shape of Johnny Jump-ups, for hegemony in post-1960's Britain. It also takes on a few minor upper-class, middle-class, working-class and under-class skirmishes on the side. All this is couched as a pretty good mystery. However, the book's real beauty lies in its ironic taxonomy of the English social classes and their various manifestations. Paul Shelley's modest rendition of the varieties of speech is pleasantly unobtrusive, and the air of weariness his voice often carries seems right for the narrative. K.A.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0670800945
- ISBN 13 9780670800940
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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