Charles William Johns

The Nettleham Gentlemen's Club (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces readers to The Nettleham Gentlemen's Club, a collection of the bizarre, the inane, and the borderline bonkers. We meet Humpty Dumpty's fat egg brother, Victor Drake, who inhales gin rickeys and cocktail sausages with the voracity of a starving vacuum cleaner. There's Clarence Constable, a gentleman with a pathological inability to negotiate a cheese counter, and Charles Bumbridge, an individual with a finely tuned dislike of eggs and who cannot properly deliver his own favourite joke. They are joined by Henry Calming, a dedicated late evening walker (precisely at 10:00 p.m.) who sits by the window, sips his drink, and plays cards. There are nine in all--a collection of odd and idiosyncratic individuals who belong to a club to which, perhaps, no one else wishes to be admitted. Is there some overarching theme to their saga? Perhaps the docile joys of old age and a sagacious acceptance of death/the afterlife? Regardless, it never hurts to read a superbly crafted and odd story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 56
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666716429
• Artikelnr.: 62587079

Autorenporträt

Charles William Johns is an affiliate researcher at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, and is a member of many committees such as the Sartre Studies International Journal and the Journal of International Comparative Literature. His philosophical work has been heralded by many and is directly associated with the speculative realist movement in contemporary philosophy. His fictional work has piqued interest from the likes of Julian Barnes and D. M. Thomas and is generally associated with the new sincerity movement. The Nettleham Gentlemen's Club marks his eighth book at the age of thirty-three.