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The Ship of Fools

The Ship of Fools

by Gregory Norminton (Author)

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    Hardcover 2002

    $3.27
Synopsis

The characters on the purgatorial Ship of Fools - a ship that's going nowhere very fast - bicker and struggle for attention: telling tales that bounce off one another to form a compendium of interrelated stories, running from lyrical romance to satire, by way of fairy-tale and black comedy: Canterbury Tales for the millennium.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 21 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0340821000
ISBN 13: 9780340821008
Book Overview: Marketing: Major printing of colour book proofs to be mailed to literary novelists, editors, opinion formers and the book trade. Full UK author tour with radio interviews, festival appearances and literary lunches. (Temporary)

Media Reviews
The only way to describe this remarkable book is as a modern day Canterbury Tales. The ship goes nowhere very much, but the people aboard are truly strange and unusual: the penitent drunkard, the drinking woman, a monk, a prudish nun, a glutton and so on. It is bawdy, entertaining and full of surprises. Those aboard tell tales to ward off disaster and boredom, and the whole thing is a coat of very many colours; at times wonderfully funny and outrageous. As the General Prologue says, These stationary travellers, pilgrims without a destination, are simply passing the time . A first novel by an author aged only 25, and it has already been acknowledged as something special by a good number of booksellers, according to the proof copy.