- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby (1 Nov 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749083557
- ISBN-13: 978-0749083557
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 14.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 719,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Nick and his best friend, Bridget, are in the West Indies working on a musical film biography of the notorious pirate Blackbeard. But the presence of modern-day pirates, equally ruthless salvage divers and a whole host of dangerous watery creatures, find them fighting for their lives.
From the Author
It began four years ago with me doodling with some silly lyrics for an imagined musical about Blackbeard, the psycopathic pirate who terrorised the coast of Carolina and Georgia back when. I liked the idea of writing a novel based around Hollywood's two least popular genres - the musical and the pirate movie. At the time there hadn't been a successful film in either genre for decades. (The most recent pirate movie, Cutthroat Island, a vanity project for Geena Davis directed by her husband, had sunk with all hands.) For various reasons I got diverted from the novel. (One of the main reasons was the work I was doing on a straight crime series set in Brighton - or perhaps I should say non-comic as straight and Brighton might seem like a contradiction in terms.) By the time I came back to Cast Adrift Moulin Rouge had been a hit musical (though a one-off) and the wonderful Pirates of the Caribbean had been a box-office smash. Suddenly, Cast Adrift is relevant! Well, maybe... Happy reading.
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Serious comedy!,
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This review is from: Cast Adrift (Hardcover)
There are few books which make you laugh. Even fewer that make you laugh out loud. But books which have you laughing out loud within the first few pages are rare indeed. This is one of them -- and one which keeps you laughing right to the end. The one liners come thick and fast, the situations are hilarious, and the plot becomes more intriguing by the page.If you want a breath of fresh comic air, buy this book. But be warned. Don't read it in a public place. As you choke with laughter, you'll get some seriously "funny" looks.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Welcome Back!,
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This review is from: Cast Adrift (Hardcover)
The boy and girl are back! I've been waiting ages for this book featuring Nick Madrid and Bridget Frost to appear. Years ago I heard some of the daft lyrics for the pirate musical that is the setting and couldn't get them out of my head. ("I'm feeling topsy turvy/Is it love or is it scurvy?") Now, finally, the book. Worth waiting for.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Finger on the absurd pulse,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cast Adrift (Hardcover)
Little Britain might well be the (ephemeral) comedy that everybody in the Uk responds to but for my money Guttridge is the man for funny fiction that lacerates in a comic way what is going on in modern western society. SO - he satirises Hollywood, reality TV at its most grotesque, female/male relationships - plus modern piracy, modern music and - erm - the BBC. Hilarious.
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