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Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer
- Author
- Russell Hoban
- Narrator
- Chris Nayak
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 29 April 2021
- Run Time
- 5 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong?
'A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday
'Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer' The Times Literary Supplement
'Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times
© Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer.
Times Literary Supplement
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A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender.
Mail on Sunday
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He mixes wild invention with subtle observation... the resulting tale reads like a downbeat, offbeat Faust for the tawdry, lottery-playing 1990s.
The Times
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Worth rejoicing in ... a banquet of whimsical delights. Each Russell Hoban book is surprising ... but you also know what you're getting, which is curiosity, wonder and a world-encompassing empathy.
The Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Russell Hoban
- Narrator
- Chris Nayak
- Duration
- 5 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 April 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241525111
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Romance
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. 'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong?'A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday'Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer' The Times Literary Supplement'Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times© Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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