Making History

Fry, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0679459553 / ISBN 13: 9780679459552

Published by Random House, New York, 1996

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What if Hitler had never been born? A graduate student in history joins with and aging German physicist - and Holocaust survivor - to attempt to change the course of history. But will it make the world better? This book presents history as black comedy.381 pages. Published @ $24.00.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making History
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679459553
• ISBN 13: 9780679459552
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Print
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction Novels

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Synopsis

Those of us who have already discovered Stephen Fry know him as the brilliant British comedian behind TV series such as Jeeves & Wooster and Blackadder, and the author of two enormously funny novels, The Liar and The Hippopotamus. But his new film (in which he plays Oscar Wilde) and his new novel (this one) represent a somewhat alarming departure from his previous work: They're more serious. Though humor is still an essential ingredient of both, Fry's fans are finally getting to witness the emotional depth that this brilliant polymath usually keeps hidden.

In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times.

About the Author

As well as being the bestselling author of four novels, The Stars' Tennis Balls, Making History, The Hippopotamus and The Liar, and the first volume of his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot, STEPHEN FRY has played Peter in Peter's Friends, Wilde in the film Wilde, Jeeves in the television series Jeeves & Wooster and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the television series Fry & Laurie.