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Book by Newman, Robert
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About the Author
Robert Newman is a writer, political comedian and activist. The writing of this book, his third novel, is the subject of a BBC film, Scribbling. His show, 'From Caliban to the Tailban - 500 Years of Humanitarian Intervention', is in the fourth month of a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre and will tour throughout the UK and in the U.S. over the next year.
Review
"... a sublimely frisky novel ... it reads like what you'd get if Tom Wolfe climbed inside the head of Noam Chomsky." -- New York Times "...the talismanic Catch-22 of the antiglobalization protest movement, the fictional complement to Naomi Klein's influential treatise No Logo. Expect to see copies of it peeking out of battered rucksacks from Berkeley to Burlington... startlingly vivid... who is this guy?" - The New York Times "makes a lot of British fiction seem rather tender-minded in comparison." -Guardian "[A] wonderful, big-hearted, textured, funny, moral and deeply unfashionable book." - Guardian Weekend "[An] epic novel... full of incedent, emotion and polemic... an expansive, fluid and moving story." - Independent on Sunday "A] testimonial to Newman's formidable range, intelligence and talent." - Publishers' Weekly "Could this herald the resuscitation of the English 'literary political novel', almost dead in the water since the best work of Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene"... [Newman] has... taken a rare risk... to remind us how the personal is political and vice versa." - Independent
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- PublisherVerso Publishing
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1844675238
- ISBN 13 9781844675234
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages344
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