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Zusatztext 'The complexity of the plotting is le Carre-like in its ingenuity; the back-story detailing is Dickensian both in its vividness and in its depth; Umberto Eco would recognise an erudition that challenges his own (and far surpasses that of the hugely-overrated Dan Brown)! and Orwell would have been proud of the persuasiveness of the depictions of the evil influence of multinational conglomerates! as exemplified by the Goliath Corporation! and of the inescapable misery and squalor of totalitarian communism as evinced by the Socialist Republic of Wales (national motto: "Not Always Raining"). One has to consider Jasper Fforde in the context of his predecessors in surreal comic fantasy - Lewis Carroll! Thorne Smith! the Goons! the Monty Python team! Douglas Adams! Robert Rankin! Terry Pratchett and the rest - and in many ways he not only matches their genius! but actually transcends it.' Informationen zum Autor Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing , and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky. Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales. Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasperfforde. Klappentext Fourth book in the phenomenally successful series starring Thursday Next! head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent. Another hilarious adventure that will appeal to readers of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. The hardback readched number one on the "Independent" bestseller list. The Number One bestseller and the fourth Thursday Next adventure - 'Don't ask. Just read it'. Zusammenfassung The Number One bestseller and the fourth Thursday Next adventure - 'Don't ask. Just read it'....
