Making History - Hardcover

Fry, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679459553 ISBN 13: 9780679459552

Verlag: Random House (T), 2001

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Book by Fry Stephen

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The British comic actor best known for his role in the TV series Jeeves and Wooster presents his third novel, in which an aging German physicist prevents Hitler's birth, with fortunate and unfortunate results. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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who have already discovered Stephen Fry know him as the brilliant British comedian behind TV series such as Jeeves & Wooster and Blackadder, and the author of two enormously funny novels, The Liar and The Hippopotamus. But his new film (in which he plays Oscar Wilde) and his new novel (this one) represent a somewhat alarming departure from his previous work: They're more serious. Though humor is still an essential ingredient of both, Fry's fans are finally getting to witness the emotional depth that this brilliant polymath usually keeps hidden.

In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most

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• Verlag: Random House (T)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679459553
• ISBN 13: 9780679459552
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 380