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Time's Fool (Paperback)
by Glyn Maxwell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Picador (7 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 033048544X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330485449
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,334,484 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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The Scotsman
Here's a new trip for BritLit - the novel as verse... Classic yet hip, stylised yet inventive, Maxwell's opus must be destined for cult status.

Synopsis
Often hailed as the most technically gifted and stylish of the younger English poets. Maxwell has delivered a great work Time's Fool begins on a stalled train, where Edmund Lea has been stuck for a very long time indeed. A late 20th century, rail-borne reincamation of the Flying Dutchman, Edmund remains eternally locked in his hellish circuit - with the exception of one day in every seven years, when the train pulls into his home town, and he must attempt to unravel the nature of his curse. Somewhere between a very English Inferno and an Ancient Manner for the new century, Time's Fool is the most ambitious and uncompromising work Glyn Maxwell has yet delivered - vertiginous, febrile, often darkly comic, and always infused with an almost unbearable nostalgia.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous, 27 Feb 2005
One of those books that you know you're going to read again - and one of those books that induces a wry chuckle as you appreciate how good it is. How can anything be this good, and written in this day and age by an ordinary bloke??
It stays with you, with both humour and a very rich melancholy. So difficult to say why it was so good - its understated, no great "hooks" or anything, that narrative demands - and yet you can't put it down, are sorry it ends and wonder if you can leave it alone long enough to recreate the astonishment on a second reading. Nice, haunting rhythms and rhymes, but not to any dogmatic extent - poetry doesn't need to rhyme after all, but this largely does, or at least, chimes rather than rhymes.

Sorry - I'm being vague, and probably unhelpful! But its a life-changer, for me. It sent me flying to Amazon for all other Glyn Maxwell books too.
Wonderful, and will be with me for ever.

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