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Surviving on a diet of fried Spam and vodka, Andrew Whittaker is the editor of a small and slightly dingy literary magazine - 'Soap: A Journal of the Arts'. Through this journal, he hopes to fan the flames of literary excellence, publishing such debuts as 'The Toilets of Annapurna' and the intriguing mirror poetry of Miriam Wildercamp. But life is not simple. His tenants are tiring of their blocked drains and killer-mice, his ex-wife wants money, and he is pursued by a frustrated Canadian. Haven fallen out with the local arts community he decides to set up a literary festival in order to save his failing journal - but will this be Andrew Whittaker's moment of glory or his Waterloo?
THE CRY OF THE SLOTH is the brilliantly funny yet touching portrait of one of life's underdogs, a dreamer bewildered by the world and his place in it.
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The Cry of the Sloth is the funniest anatomy of literary mediocrity since Max Beerbohm's Enoch Soames (John Sutherland THE TIMES)
most of the novel consists of Whittakers hilarious rejection letters to wannabe authors.. Savage works page after page of delightful variations on this theme (Ian Sansom THE GUARDIAN)
A funny and pathetic sequence of letters.. written over the course of several months (Michael Caines TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)
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most of the novel consists of Whittakers hilarious rejection letters to wannabe authors.. Savage works page after page of delightful variations on this theme (Ian Sansom THE GUARDIAN)
A funny and pathetic sequence of letters.. written over the course of several months (Michael Caines TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)
From the author of FIRMIN, a tale of life, literature and the way of the sloth...
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 009927406X
- ISBN 13 9780099274063
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages112
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