Zoo Time

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 375 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful read-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guys peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them.Not that anyone reads anything, anyway. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if its time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isnt. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book.By turns angry, elegiac and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. Our funniest writer is at his brilliant best.

ISBN: 9781408831823