Don't Point That Thing at Me: 2015 Edition

Bonfiglioli, Kyril

ISBN 10: 1468311638 / ISBN 13: 9781468311631

Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2015

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May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.39. Seller Inventory # G1468311638I4N00

Bibliographic Details

Title: Don't Point That Thing at Me: 2015 Edition

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis:

A wealthy art dealer's talent for attracting loose women and trouble leads him into conflict with the British secret service.

Review:

"A rare mixture of wit and imaginative unpleasantness" Julian Barnes

"You couldn't snuggle under the duvet with anything more disreputable and delightful" Stephen Fry
"Just read the first page of this book and try to keep a straight face. Then try to put the book down. You won't be able to do either one. This cult classic (the first of a trilogy), about louche, sybaritic Charlie Mortdecai, an art dealer largely untroubled by conscience, draws readers into its unpolitically comic world and keeps them there. The plot concerns Mortdecai's efforts to keep one step ahead of nemesis Martland, a policeman vested with the power to work outside the law, and to deliver a stolen Goya he has concealed in the headliner of his Rolls Royce Silver Ghost. The plot takes him to America (where is he much bemused by the locals, and they by him) and back again, ending in a most intriguing predicament. Wry and dry, picaresque and profane, a book like this can be so hard to describe that efforts to do so invoking some or all of P. G. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, even Hunter S. Thompson and John Kennedy Toole give the impression that it's a Frankenstein's monster. Not true. Bonfiglioli's Mortdecai is a true original, and there's nothing quite so hard to describe as that." "Booklist" (Starred Review)
"What are the books like?They are darker, stranger and more interesting than any film of them (or at least any film cleared for general release) could be The novels are extremely funny, first of all. They deal, like Wodehouse, in sentence-by-sentence sparkle, in gestures of grand insouciance. " Sam Leith, "The Guardian""