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Losing it

Losing it

by RanjitBolt (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

    $4.29
Synopsis

Losing It is a brilliantly funny and wonderfully accomplished short novel in rhyming couplets. Lucy, its heroine, is a bright and beautiful girl who has come to London to lose her virginity - which (this being fiction) she never manages to do. The plot involves time-travel, witchcraft, the undead, and trans-species-ism, and the verse is fast moving, and full of outrageous rhymes, satirical asides and sophisticated humour. A miniature masterpiece.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 160
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Published: 05 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 071956025X
ISBN 13: 9780719560255

Author Bio
Born 1959AD In Manchester, Bolt moved (aged 3) To Cambridge; he started writing verse; Was educated at the Perse And Balliol, Oxford. Faute de mieux He then became a stockbroker But kept on writing (in the loo) Stuff that he sent to people who Rightly (and rudely) turned it down; Translated quite a sweet, unknown Verse comedy by Pierre Corneille The Liar, which had found its way By '89 to the Old Vic. He dropped his job like a hot brick In 1990, to translate Full time. He has produced to date Versions of thirty plays or more But not one novel heretofore. He lives and works and is unwed In north west London, in Hampstead. The author is Ranjit Bolt, nephew of Robert Bolt the actor and grandson of Ranjit Singh the cricketer. He is well known in the Theatre for his new translations of verse classics (by Moliere for instance, or Aristophanes) mostly the National Theatre, where he has worked with Peter Hall, Jonathan Miller and others.