Author:John O'Farrell
It's a big night at the London Palladium. As Jimmy Conway steps out blinking into the spotlights live on national television, he can't help wondering whether he should have perhaps shared his little secret with someone by now. Jimmy has never done any performing of any sort ever before...
Just as 'bogus doctors' are occasionally discovered working in hospitals, Jimmy Conway has become a 'bogus celebrity'; winning an award for something he never did, being photographed in Hello! in someone else's house, and ultimately making a fool of the entire mad and shallow celebrity merry-go-round.
'Excellently done...O'Farrell gives an extra squirm to the traditional English comedy of embarrassment'
—— The Sunday TimesJulianna Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart
—— Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of EMPIRE FALLSAn accomplished and charmingly messy tale of love and redemption
—— Kirkus ReviewsA novel of extraordinary range, yet of extraordinary minuteness, that manages never to sacrifice one quality for the other
—— Financial TimesWilliams has fashioned an always engaging, psychologically convincing work of fiction - a consistent and well-realized portrait
—— New YorkerA highly imaginative account of the life and times of Augustus-a brilliant novel
—— Library JournalA brilliant epistolary novel about Octavius Caesar and ancient Rome...all three [of John Williams'] novels show a similar narrative arc: a young man's initiation, vicious male rivalries, subtler tensions between men and women, fathers and daughters, and finally a bleak sense of disappointment, even futility.
—— New York TimesExquisite...brims with great lines
—— Chicago TribuneA vividly imagined re-creation of classical Rome, but its intuitive grasp of the experience of immense power makes it an unusual, and superior, novel
—— Boston GlobeThere could be no better year than 2014 to rediscover this one
—— Mary Beard , Times Literary Supplement
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