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Synopsis
Brian Marley, a divorced Englishman, is alone in the vilest jungle on earth, about to die live on television. A contestant on "Brit Pluck, Green Hell, Two Million", the ultimate reality TV show, Marley has managed to outlive his rivals and win enough money to change his life. Except that the TV crew has just been wiped out in a helicopter crash. With the crocodiles closing in, he has no option but to climb the vast cliff at his back. Inevitably, he falls...And awakes in a lost world that is remarkably like an Englishman's heaven. There's cricket and rugger, the Union Jack, plucky boys, pretty girls, a tough but fair headmaster - an entire miniature civilization preserved by the surviving passengers from Comet IV, which vanished in 1958. Firmly convinced that they were the first casualties of World War III, they have kept an idyllic, pre-sixties England alive. But when Brian's rescuers do find him at last, when the world of the Daily Star confronts that of the Eagle, when the Prime Minister, spotting an opportunity for a sound-bite, meets the Headmaster, the novel shifts gear into a glorious satire worthy of Evelyn Waugh.
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Revue de presse
"Amusing and intelligent throughout...The tone of the narrative is pitch-perfect" (Observer)
"A comic novelist of considerable stature...An assured, clever, raffishly inventive work" (Guardian)
"Deliciously entertaining" (Independent on Sunday)
"The writing is so sharp and waspish that comparisons with Evelyn Waugh are not misplaced" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Consistently inventive and entertaining" (Daily Mail)
Biographie de l'auteur
James Hawes is the author of six novels, including White Powder, Green Light and My Little Armalite. He lives in Cardiff.
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- ÉditeurVintage
- Date d'édition2006
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- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages352
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