Pyrates: A Swashbuckling Comic Novel by the Creator of Flashman - Softcover

Fraser, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762774312 ISBN 13: 9780762774319

Publisher: Lyons Press, 2011

Synopsis

In THE PYRATES, the author of the celebrated Flashman novels pays tongue-in-cheek homage to the swashbuckling books and movies that have always stirred his imagination. In these rollicking pages you'll find tall ships and desert islands; impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines; devilishly sinister cads and ghastly dungeons; improbably acrobatic duels and hair's-breadth escapes; and more plot twists than you can shake a rapier at. A deliriously entertaining combination of Errol Flynn action-adventure and Naked Gun pastiche, in a new package geared to the legions of Flashman fanatics.

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Review:

"The most wonderfully idiotic love song to swashbucklers ever set to Korngold trumpets. Fraser again proves himself a master." --New York Times "An unfathomable delight." --New Yorker "Fabulous . . . You'll want to stay up all night reading this one." --Washington Post"It's all there, right down to a Dead Man's Chest, cleavages that are everything they should be and characters in sea-boots who say nothing but 'Arr!' and 'Me hearty!' in a plot that is wonderfully absurd." --Financial Times "Fraser can easily juggle Conan Doyle and Holmes, Fleming and Bond, Wodehouse and Wooster, and Chandler and Marlowe." --Vanity Fair

Book Description:

“An Unfathomable Delight” The New Yorker

About this edition

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0762774312
• ISBN 13: 9780762774319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 403