The Ship of Fools by Gregory Norminton
The characters on the purgatorial "Ship of Fools" - a ship that's going nowhere very fast - bicker and struggle for attention: telling tales that bounce off one another to form a compendium of interrelated stories, running from lyrical romance to satire, by way of fairy-tale and black comedy: Canterbury Tales for the millennium.
The only way to describe this remarkable book is as a modern day Canterbury TalesThe ship goes nowhere very much, but the people aboard are truly strange and unusual: the penitent drunkard, the drinking woman, a monk, a prudish nun, a glutton and so on. It is bawdy, entertaining and full of surprises. Those aboard tell tales to ward off disaster and boredom, and the whole thing is a coat of very many colours; at times wonderfully funny and outrageous. As the General Prologue says, "These stationary travellers, pilgrims without a destination, are simply passing the time". A first novel by an author aged only 25, and it has already been acknowledged as something special by a good number of booksellers, according to the proof copy.
Gregory Norminton is a twenty-four-year-old Oxford English Graduate who has trained as an actor, written several plays and is at present writer-in-residence and teacher of drama at Wellington College in Berkshire. 'The Ship of Fools' is his first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340821008 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340821000 |
| Title | The Ship of Fools |
| Author | Gregory Norminton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2002-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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