Dunster - Hardcover

Mortimer, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670840599 ISBN 13: 9780670840595

Publisher: Viking, 1992

Synopsis

A brilliant new novel from the author of the bestselling Paradise Postponed and the Rumpole stories. Philip Progmire once wanted to become an actor but now labors as an accountant for Megapolis Television. His friend and nemesis is Dick Dunster, a cocksure journalist who has already sabotaged Philip's acting career and marriage. Now the inescapable Dunster threatens his job as well.

About this title

About the Author:

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited." He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

Synopsis:

Follows the story of two men locked in an adversarial friendship at school, through Oxford, and on to the competitive world of commercialism, success and marriage. Set in London, the novel culminates in a trial scene.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0670840599
• ISBN 13: 9780670840595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304