Meet the Wife
Published on 7. July 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-330-34842-3 (ISBN)
Description
Accept Clive Sinclair's invitation, and you will embark upon an expedition led by none other than Odysseus, still desperately seeking Penelope. You will cross paths with the Lone Ranger, with Wyatt Earp, the most famous lawman of them all, and his voluptuous wife - whose portrait on the front cover (which just so happens to be the double of a missing spouse) may or may not be a true likeness.
'It is a beautiful piece of writing, like an extended dream' The Times
'Meet the Wife is shockingly funny, and contains a new-found lyrical beauty. Its prose bristles with countless puns and word-plays' Independent
'Sinclair, who is a master of self-deprecation . . . has a wickedly dark humour, a gift for satire and an imagination powerful enough to leap the space-time continuum' Scotland on Sunday
'It is a beautiful piece of writing, like an extended dream' The Times
'Meet the Wife is shockingly funny, and contains a new-found lyrical beauty. Its prose bristles with countless puns and word-plays' Independent
'Sinclair, who is a master of self-deprecation . . . has a wickedly dark humour, a gift for satire and an imagination powerful enough to leap the space-time continuum' Scotland on Sunday
Reviews / Votes
'It is a beautiful piece of writing, like an extended dream' The Times 'Meet the Wife is shockingly funny, and contains a new-found lyrical beauty. Its prose bristles with countless puns and word-plays' Independent 'Sinclair, who is a master of self-deprecation... has a wickedly dark humour, a gift for satire and an imagination powerful enough to leap the space-time continuum' Scotland on SundayMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-330-34842-3 (9780330348423)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Clive Sinclair was born in 1948 and is the author of several novels and short stories, as well as a collection of essays on 'the facts of life and the facts of death'. Included in Granta's original list of Best Young British Novelists, he has also received a Somerset Maugham Award, the Jewish Quarterly Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Fiction. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in St Albans.