First Among Sequels: Thursday Next Book 5

Fforde, Jasper

ISBN 10: 0340835745 / ISBN 13: 9780340835746

Editore: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2007

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First edition/first ptg, ex-library copy with very shiny clean DJ protected in sleeve, unclipped and removable from sleeve as no tape used. Corners are crisp, there is some crimping at spine ends and base is showing minor shelf rubbing. A "withdrawn" stamp and lending label, two library stamps, dewey label on spine, carefully read but six times according to the sheet, and in decent overall condition. Size: 8vo.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: First Among Sequels: Thursday Next Book 5
• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0340835745
• ISBN 13: 9780340835746
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: VG+
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: VG+

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Riassunto

Fourteen years after Thursday Next pegged out at Superhoop '88, her Jurisfiction job has been downgraded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her previous adventures are now themselves in print. Thursday's time is spent worrying about her teenage son Friday and tutoring new recruits. This being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far away. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinbach falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. Before this can be righted, Miss Marple dies in a narratively inexplicable car accident, bringing her series also to a close. Thursday, receiving a death-threat clearly intended for her written self, realises what is going on - there is a serial killer is loose in the Bookworld. Meanwhile, Goliath have perfected a 22-seater Prose Portal Luxury Coach, and plan on taking literary tourists on a holiday to the works of Jane Austen. Thursday alone realises the true intent of Goliath's unwanted incursions into fiction, but she can't fight all these battles on her own. She must team up with the one person she really can't get along with - the written Thursday Next, currently starring in The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. But it's no time to be picky. . .

Recensione

Jasper Fforde here mixes nursery rhymes with golden age detective fiction to produce something very accomplished indeed. (Guardian)

'Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted. They have empathetic heroes and heroines who nearly make terribly mistakes and suitably dastardly villains who do. They also have more twists and turns than Christie, and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett. As Humpty Dumpty's life-story is revealed, the mystery becomes curiouser and curiouser, and the compulsion to find out what is going on increases. A real treat.' (Independent)

'Fans of the late Douglas Adams or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' (Herald)

'If you haven't read Jasper Fforde before, THE BIG OVER EASY is likely to come as a surprise . . . the combination of fantasy and (more of less) classic murder makes a wild and enjoyable change' (Sunday Telegraph)