{"product_id":"9780571227235-lord-malquist-and-mr-moon","title":"Lord Malquist and Mr Moon","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966, includes not only the eighteenth-century figure of the dandified Malquist and his ineffectual Boswell, Moon, but also a couple of cowboys with six-shooters, a lion (banned from the Ritz) and a donkey-borne Irishman claiming to be the risen Christ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new introduction by the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966 soon after the premiere of his runaway success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, is a dazzling fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach, his Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket, a couple of cowboys, a lion who's banned from the Ritz, an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen Christ, and three irresistible women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Superb fantasy, mad, sad and uproarious by turn.' \u003ci\u003eOxford Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A highly imaginative and theatrical black comedy, with a cunningly contrived denouement whose absurdity is chillingly logical.' \u003ci\u003eGlasgow Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A bizarre book, full of pastiche, with language continually tripping up its characters.' \u003ci\u003eYorkshire Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lord Malquist and Mr Moon takes place in a dream-London where everything is seen through a haze of despair, and cowboys and a coach-and-pair and a pet lion wander with innumerable others through the plot, giving it a kind of child-like surrealism. It manages to be sad without being sentimental, and to give its fantasies a wit and exactness that make them fruitful and rewarding.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536563478902,"sku":"9780571227235","price":7.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36368892.jpg?v=1774289204","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571227235-lord-malquist-and-mr-moon","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}