Thursday Next #5
Viking Adult
August 2007
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Featuring: Thursday Next
400 pages ISBN: 0670038717 EAN: 9780670038718 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature
in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's wildly popular
series
Beloved for his prodigious imagination,
his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer
silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since
Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre Affair, a
genre send-up hailed as an instant classic. Since the
no-nonsense literary detective from Swindon made her debut,
literature has never been quite the same. Neither have
nursery rhymes, for that matter. With two successful books
of the Nursery Crime series under his belt, Fforde takes up
once again the brilliant adventures of his signature
creation in the highly anticipated fifth installment of the
Thursday Next series. And it's better than ever.
It's been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the
1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year
old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock
Holmes is killed at the Rheinback Falls and his series is
stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected,
Miss Marple dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her
series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death
threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes
what's going on-there is a serial killer on the loose in the
Bookworld. And that's not all-The Goliath Corporation is
trying to deregulate book travel. Naturally, Thursday must
travel to the outer limits of acceptable narrative
possibilities to triumph against increasing odds.
Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots,
and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's return is sure to be
celebrated by Jasper's fanatical fans and the critics who
have loved him since the beginning.
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