Synopsis
Karl Leon Forelock, a Cambridge graduate and cultural operative for the CIA, travels to Australia where he becomes involved with two synchronized swimmers
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Review
"An outrageously gifted funny man" (Guardian)
"It makes one laugh... and that is a gift above rubies" (Financial Times)
"Redback does for Australia what Clive James has done for England... Literate, outrageously and consistently very funny" (Time Out)
"The most beguiling innovation in British letters in years. Rude, stylish, conversational, pithy, anecdotal, ruminative, fantastical, self-deprecating, allusive" (John Walsh)
"Dazzlingly, brilliantly clever; and side-splittingly, knee-slappingly funny" (Washington Post)
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'The most dangerously funny writer in the English language' - Sunday Times
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