The Eyre Affair
Thursday Next Book 1
$22.57
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2001
Summary
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of ‘Jane Eyre’. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all things literary - and a woman called Thursday Next.
In this utterly original and wonderfully funny first novel, Fforde has created a fiesty, l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340733561 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034073356X |
| Author: | Jasper Fforde |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 265g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 152mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Thursday Next |
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What Fforde is pulling is a variation on the classic Monty Python gambit: the incongruous juxtaposition og low comedy and high erudition - this scam has not been pulled off with such off-hand finesse and manic verve since the Pythons shut up shop. ‘The Eyre Affair’ is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as raw, howling farce - Independent
It is always a privilege to watch the birth of a cult, and Hodder has just cut the umbilical cord. Always ridiculous, often hilarious … blink and you miss a vital narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, ‘Clockwork Orange’ and ‘1984’. And that’s just for starters - Time OutIngenious - I’ll watch Jasper Fforde nervously - Terry PratchettSurely a cult in the making - Marie ClareAbout The Author
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde’s first novel was published to astonishing critical and commercial success in 2001. Since then he has written 3 other Thursday Next novels, and is working on the first in a new series of crime novels. Jasper lives near Hay-on-Wye and flies Tiger Moth aeroplanes as relaxation.
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