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Ever since an obscure Civil Servant called Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project. Now, as a television company reinvestigates the case, the Cabinet Office feels it may be prudent to make a reassessment of its own, in case of any sudden alarm at Number Ten.
'A Landing on the Sun is not just a masterly novel in its own right, but a clever debunking of those off-the-peg Whitehall yarns ... Many novelists have tried to take the lid off the arcane world of the Civil Service. Frayn has done it as brilliantly and imaginitively as any of them.' Daily Telegraph
'Comedy creeps up on A Landing on the Sun like bindweed, transforming what starts out as a thriller into a small masterpiece of the absurd.' Financial Times
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Michael Frayn is the author of eleven novels, including the bestselling Headlong and Spies. He has also written thirteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards in l999. He lives in London.
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- EditorialFaber & Faber
- Fecha de publicación8 enero 2009
- Tamaño del archivo1395 KB
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- ASIN : B002RI9Y6Y
- Editorial : Faber & Faber; Main edición (8 enero 2009)
- Idioma : Inglés
- Tamaño del archivo : 1395 KB
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- Longitud de impresión : 294 páginas
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As Jessop's investigation proceeds he finds a cache of tape-recordings that details the original investigation that Summerchild and a noted Philosophy graduate, a Dr Elizabeth Serafin, (a Russian name, he notes) had been engaged upon. Jessop is fearfully embarrassed as he finds out that they were engaged on a study of "The Quality of Life". Their investigations seem to hinge on the notion of Happiness. "Happiness!" thinks Jessop, "This is the Government service, not a holiday camp! When even Summerchild isn't happy! The quiet man with the violin, who goes home to play trios with his quiet and loving wife and his quiet and loving daughter, in his quiet and well-loved house along that quiet and rural lane... Happiness! Who told them to start drivelling on about happiness? No one. They're blundering about like a ship in the fog with no terms of reference to steer by."
This is a delightful, wonderful book. Though there are quite long stretches of fugue that don't seem to move quickly enough, it's worth hanging on for the denouement as Jessop discerns what is happening with the help of the tapes Summerchild and Serafin have made of their deliberations. It will change Jessop's life, but the sadness at the heart of it brings no resolution. This is indeed, redolent of something by Chekhov despite none of it taking place in Russia. It is a story of existential angst, of quiet people who make discoveries about happiness that are unsupportable in an ordinary life.