By Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard's first novel, initially released in 1966 prior to the most excellent of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is an uproarious delusion set in sleek London. the forged encompasses a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried trainer; Malquist's Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket; a few cowboys, one being named Jasper Jones; a lion who's banned from the Ritz; an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen Christ; and 3 impossible to resist ladies.
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