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Thursday Next returns to rescue reading from certain destruction . . . again
Fourteen years after she pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday
Next is grappling with a host of problems in the BookWorld: a
recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the
inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy
novels. The Council of Genres is trying to broker a peace deal between
certain antagonistic genres: Racy Novel has been recklessly placed
between Ecclesiastical and Feminist, and they are at each other's
throats. Meanwhile, back in Swindon, the government is reporting a
dangerously high stupidity surplus, and Thursday's idle
sixteen-year-old son would rather sleep all day than follow his destiny
as a member of the ChronoGuard. Not only does she captain the ship Moral Dilemma
to the very limits of acceptable narrative possibilities, but Thursday
also finds she must face down her most vicious enemy yet: herself.
pub date: 2008-07-29 | paperback | 9780143113560 |
