Pyrates
A Swashbuckling Comic Novel By The Creator Of Flashman
Published on 1. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-7627-7431-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 FairMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Old Saybrook
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7627-7431-9 (9780762774319)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
George MacDonald Fraser was the writer of many novels, short stories, memoirs, other volumes of nonfiction, and screenplays -- including co-writing credit for the James Bond film Octopussy. Among his most popular works are the Flashman Papers, a series of novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman, a hero who galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century. His other books include several non-Flashman novels, among them Mr. American; The Pyrates; Black Ajax; and The Reavers. For his work, Mr. Fraser received many honors, among them the Order of the British Empire in 1999. He died in 2008.