- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc (27 July 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1570717575
- ISBN-13: 978-1570717574
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 13.8 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Ford is the most talented and the most impossible man Theo has ever met. And Ford's genius, his reckless romanticism, and his fearless love of life profoundly influence the reticent scholar. When Ford discovers that Theo has written a play, a madcap journey begins that pushes the young recluse out of the wings onto the bright, bustling stages of life and love. There he finds himself playing roles he never would have thought possible. In his most hilarious book since "Handling Sin", Michael Malone has created a story as wildly funny as it is profoundly wise.
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In the West End of London, at eight o'clock on a cold starry evening, the red velvet curtain trembled and lifted a few inches off the floor of the great stage, letting out a shimmer of soft amber light. Read the first page
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The first half of the book is a campus novel set in the Southern US that Malone knows well and has written about elsehwere. It's much more David Lodge than Malcolm Bradbury - although the leather-jacketed man-of-the-people 'Erbie Crawford bears more than a passing resemblance to a nicer version of Howard Kirk. The second half is a 'caper' mainly set in an English countryside that Malone doesn't know well; primarily because it has never existed; a fact which I would give the author credit for being aware of. One of the themes of the novel is the tendency of academics to live in the world of their books rather than real world and overt references to both Winnie the Pooh and Wind in the Willows throughout the novel are, I think, a hint of Malone's preference to use a fantasy setting with which readers may be familiar rather than a real one with which they are not.
Despite being English I am in no better position to judge whether the set piece description of the Leander Club enclosure at Henley is at all accurate than I am regarding that of the Russian Tea Room in New York. They are however, both very entertaining as are a stream of minor characters.
So, all in all, the book is a lot of fun. But if you're not from the UK don't plan a visit expecting to find what's described here.
Despite being English I am in no better position to judge whether the set piece description of the Leander Club enclosure at Henley is at all accurate than I am regarding that of the Russian Tea Room in New York. They are however, both very entertaining as are a stream of minor characters.
So, all in all, the book is a lot of fun. But if you're not from the UK don't plan a visit expecting to find what's described here.
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Intelligent, inspiring and daffy
2 Oct 2002
Format:Paperback
I first read Foolscap in its hardcover release and was taken with its blend of wacky plot, warm-hearted character development and erudite but accessible literary and historical reference.
As the years have gone by, I find myself returning to the book when I need a good kick in the butt - it makes a marvelous case for taking chances and believing in yourself in order to build a rich, satisfying life.
Also, Michael Malone has a talent for creating some of the most attractive male characters I've ever come across. Theo Ryan from this book and Cuddy and Justin from the Hillston series are great guys to spend some time with.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Great academic satire
11 July 2002
Format:Paperback
As a former academic, I loved this book! Malone does a great job revealing the lunacies which characterize modern academia. The professors at Cavendish University will be very familiar to anyone who has spent any time at all at an American university.
The story itself is also quite fun---even if you aren't a fan of Walter Raleigh (as Malone clearly is---this is not his first book to discuss Raleigh).
The story itself is also quite fun---even if you aren't a fan of Walter Raleigh (as Malone clearly is---this is not his first book to discuss Raleigh).
Malone has a great sense of humor and the book, which follows the exploits of Theo Ryan, mild-mannered professor turned literary forger, is the kind which makes you laugh out loud. Avoid reading this in public unless you are comfortable having people watch you suddenly burst into uncontrollable laughter.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Sensational academic parody
25 Aug 2000
Format:Hardcover
The world of academia has always taken itself very seriously, and so when a writer like Kingsley Amis, Jane Smiley, David Lodge, or Robert Grudin parodies this seriousness, it makes for wonderful reading. Malone's parody of a fictional North Carolina university extends the parody beyond the ivory tower and into the worlds of publishing and theater. It tells the story of biographer, playwright, literary forger Theo Ryan, a professor with a big heart and a sound mind who is a bit naive. It's his touch of innocence that makes his tale so charming as Ryan goes back and forth between England and the USA, trying to do well by all and finding himself in farcical situations, despite his good will. It's a sometimes dark, but ultimately cheering comedy where love wins out and the truth prevail!
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