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Synopsis
Rafe ffoxe-Gentry, a snooty, upper-class Englishman working for GTG, a crooked multinational based in the mythical Australian state of Galahnia, is a rakish womaniser, whose nightly Got Laid Parades terminate abruptly when he falls for his Russian wife's beautiful and eccentrically brilliant young niece, Venetia. Put in charge of a visiting delegation of Russians negotiating a commercial agreement between GTG and the USSR, with Venetia as interpreter, Rafe finds the Soviet delegates more interested in booze, nightclubs, and women than in discussions. During negotiations in Singapore, the riotous behaviour of the sozzled Soviets leads to threatening Cold War complications, major disaster being narrowly averted by Venetia's ingenuity. Rafe returns triumphantly home, only to find himself in even greater trouble as the situation becomes unexpectedly perilous, homicidal and dismayingly revelatory. His affair with Venetia, once wildly sexual and heart-breakingly romantic, now degenerates into a series of despairing battles between love and hate. In turn sensual, brutal, satirical and witty, this riotous black comedy depicts the greed, corruption and madness of the H-bomb eighties, and spares no one, including its madcap hero, in its scathing portrait of an era as unrestrained and vicious as it was violent and grasping.
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J.D. Frodsham is currently Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He was a Major Scholar and later Bachelor Scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he took five first class Honours in four years, completing his PhD in Classical Chinese literature at the Australian National University. He has held Professorships in fourteen universities worldwide and has numerous scholarly publications. Fool's Mate is his second novel, following Crumbling Moon, which came out in April 2014.
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- PublisherAuthorhouse UK
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 149698708X
- ISBN 13 9781496987082
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages406
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