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March 2000
On Sale: March 6, 2000
301 pages
ISBN: 1862073163
EAN: 9781862073166
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Fiction
Many much-acclaimed debut novels are spectacular one-shots,
with the author unable to come up with something as fresh a
second time around. No such problems for Lennon, who has
chosen unploughed territory with The Funnies. Few people realise how important the world of cartoons is to
us all: even those who don't take them seriously would be
hard put to deny that they're an essential part of our
lives. When Carl Mix, the domineering father of five, dies,
he leaves his nationally syndicated strip to his son Tim,
also an artist. And the novel's delights come from the
shifting interface between the strip Family Funnies, in
which the Mix family display a relaxed unity, and the
reality in which the quality of life of his senile mother
and his secretive, schizophrenic brother is considerably
less glossy than the strip. Written in the same kind of
sharp, conversational style that characterizes Anne Tyler,
Lennon is good at taking us on an abrasive but often very
funny voyage into the heart of a dysfunctional family (the
underground artist Robert Crumb and his family would seem to
be a distant inspiration). If Lennon can come up with
something equally unusual for his third book, he will be
very much a writer to watch. --Barry Forshaw
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