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Rent The Eyre Affair
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Feb 2003
Genre: Fiction - Fantasy - Contemporary
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 384
Synopsis
In a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller. Reprint.
Reviews
Obviously, the author is drawing upon a rich literary education that not everyone shares but knowledge of the literature he is citing (and often poking fun at) is not mandatory. It's a rollicking good adventure set in a strange but absorbing universe that Fforde obviously spent a great deal of imagination in and enjoyed creating. Fforde has a strong voice but also has the surprising ability to mimic the voices of the literary greats.