Who's Who in Hell

by RobertChalmers (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.28

  'Chalmers balances tragedy and comedy with the skill and poise of John Irving' Independent

  Towards closing time in a London pub, Daniel Linnell has the idea of writing Who's Who In Hell: a mammoth compendium of the damned. Daniel is supported by his girlfriend Laura, a feisty American with aberrant instincts and a dangerous attraction to altitude, and by his boss Alexander Whittington, the maverick obituaries editor of a national newspaper. News of the book's publication precipitates a sequence of events that propel Daniel and Laura out of their North London flat, deep into the badlands of Kansas - where they receive a unique welcome from her crazed and dysfunctional family - and back again.

  This compelling modern love story establishes Robert Chambers as one of the most original voices in contemporary fiction.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.28

  Uproariously funny and achingly moving, this is a gripping debut novel about the Towards closing time in a London pub, Daniel Linnell has the idea of writing Who's Who In Hell: a mammoth compendium of the damned, whose entries range from the Emperor Nero and the Marquis de Sade, to contemporary figures like Gerald Longworth, a gangster whose enjoyment of violence is only exceeded by his furtive passion for Disney musicals.Daniel is supported by his girlfriend Laura, a feisty American with aberrant instincts and a dangerous attraction to altitude, and by his boss Alexander Whittington, the maverick obituaries editor of a national newspaper. News of the book's publication precipitates a sequence of events that propel Daniel and Laura out of their North London flat, deep into the badlands of Kansas - where they receive a unique welcome from her crazed and dysfunctional family - and back again.Bold, outrageously funny and ultimately wrenching, Who's Who In Hell establishes Robert Chalmers as one of the most original voices in contemporary fiction.