by linda
Type: fiction
Status: —
Author: Michael Palin
Description: Michael Palin's first novel is about Martin Sproale, a mild-mannered assistant postmaster...
2006-03-26
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Hemingway's Chair
Michael Palin's first novel is about Martin Sproale, a mild-mannered assistant postmaster with an obsession with Ernest Hemingway. When Martin is passed over for the postmaster position with the appointment of the slick and wiley, Nick Marshall, and when he loses his girlfriend Elaine, to the same, he begins to explore the possibility of dealing with things in a completely different fashion than what would be expected of him. With the help of an American academic, Martin taps into his heretofore unknown "wild side" and the meek and mild protagonist becomes something very different.
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