'An original...a delight to read'The TimesOn an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London,Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4,he falls in love with the divine,rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a quest involving,among other things,a glockenspiel,sheets of yellow paper,Orpheus,the Underground and that dirty chimpanzee,Death.'Kleinzeit,is a sort of holy fool,a fierce,lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de force...entirely delightful'Auberon Waugh,Evening Standard
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241485705Number of pages: 208Weight: 157 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
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A very funny quest for creativity and sanity...There are no boring sentences in a Hoban novel.Russell Hoban is one of our greatest,timeless novelists.Masterly...a mosaic in which each tiny fragment of wit or dirt or profundity has its appointed place.A second tour-de-force... entirely delightful.Brimming with humanity and humour... brilliant handling of language.Russell Hoban is our Ur-novelist,a maverick voice that is like no other.
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