The Thought Gang - Softcover

Fischer, Tibor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099516926 ISBN 13: 9780099516927

Publisher: Vintage, 2009

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 336 in Publisher: Vintage A black comedy in the grand tradition of word-drunk intellectuals-en-dementia.. The Thought Gang follows the larcenous adventures of blackout alcoholic philosopher Eddie Coffin the who in the wake of scandal. flees his professorship in England to begin the next logical step in his career: robbery. Coffin and his new partner in crime and metaphysics. Hubert the one-armed armed robber. road-trip across the Continent in a spree of crime and epistemology. arguing a cracked history of Western philosophy and plumbing the meaning of life.

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Product Description:

France. A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. The Thought Gang is born as the duo blag their way from Montpellier to Toulon for the ultimate bank robbery. Ferociously funny, Fischer combines an extravagant sense of humour with a flair for the grotesque in this heady follow-up to the Booker shortlisted Under the Frog.

Review:

"Hilarious, fast-moving stuff" (Independent)

"Not since Woody Allen has philosophy had such a hilarious application" (Guardian)

"A fast-paced, off-beat thriller... It's a zany novel with depth and a fresh, almost controversial prose style that gives you the creeping impression that you have just hitched a lift with one hell of an imagination" (List)

"Acerbic, dashingly inventive, very funny indeed" (Christopher Hitchens Mail on Sunday)

"Fischer has a unique ability to hinge the most unlikely concepts together... charcoaling ideas to gem-hardened, irresistibly funny insights" (Time Out)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0099516926
• ISBN 13: 9780099516927
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336