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Hemingway's Chair (Paperback)

by Michael Palin (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 327 pages
  • Publisher: Mandarin; New edition edition (1 April 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749319305
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749319304
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 381,731 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Michael Palin's first novel is the story of Martin Sproale, a mild and conventional assistant postmaster in his mid-thirties who lives in an English coastal town. The only remarkable thing about him is an obsession with the life, work and personality of Ernest Hemingway.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not a comedy but a good novel, 2 Sep 2000
By duncan.williamson@tesco.net (A Brit in Tbilisi, Georgia) - See all my reviews
This book is sold as a comedy novel and for the first half of the book I would say that it fits that description well enough. For the second half of the book, it's a novel: the comedy and light relief fall away. I'm not sure all of this is a bad thing since the comedy aspect of the first half didn't dominate and neither did it intrude. I suppose the basic underplot of saving a town's Post Office from International Wheeler Dealerdom was funny in itself!

I liked the way this book and the main characters all developed and the storyline was credible and moved along very well.

My lasting impression of this book won't be the way the post office was taken over by a not very nice chappie; but that Palin himself seems to sit four square as the main character. The knowledge of Hemingway and his works that was liberally spread around this book was real knowledge taken from someone who has clearly read, learned and appreciated everything that Hemingway had to offer. I even have the feeling that Palin owns THAT chair: the chair that is at least partly central to the plot.

Drop the comedy tag and approach this as a good read and you'll enjoy it I'm sure.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Amusing & thoroughly entertaining prelude to a TV adaptation, 31 Mar 1999
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Michael Palin continues his Monty Python theme of quiet, stifled, inhibited lower middle class suburban rage for his first novel 'Hemingway's Chair'. Palin, though is so satisfied with life (and why shouldn't he be), that he only manages mild angst in this tale of how high technology and corporatism give no benefit to the communities in whose name 'progress' is championed. The hero, a slightly inadequate 'bicycle clips' type of man (who Palin would lovingly play when it comes to TV) with the Pythonesque name 'Sproale' and is goaded into imitating his hero, Hemingway, by a visiting academic. The result is slightly amusing, slightly serious, slightly inconsequential. and very charming, as befits the author. Some books are tough going, some the words race off the page at you, but this book the words ran away so fast it was all over in a flash. But, hell, it was fun while it lasted.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Totally Compelling Read, 12 Sep 1999
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Typically Palin in his best 'Ripping Yarns' hero role. Martin Sproale is a seething mass of frustration masquerading as a lowly Post Office counter clerk. Full of humour, pathos and a scathing view of how progress affects the life of small town England. Couldn't put it down.
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