Fowlers End
Book description
"One of the great comic novels of the century." - Anthony Burgess
"[A]n exuberant romp with a parcel of grotesques in a truly horrible nor'-nor'-easterly suburb of London . . . great fun." - Manchester Guardian
"Rabelaisian, vigorous, readable, inventive and bizarre." - Simon Raven
"The very best of his…
Why read it?
1 author picked Fowlers End as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Published in 1957, this book is one of the few comic novels about London, and it is genuinely funny.
In a dead-end suburb, variety entertainment is dying a painful death in a flea-pit cinema that attracts a parade of fantastical characters, from the Falstaffian impresario Sam Yudenow to a pair of Greek caterers and bomb makers.
It makes a lost world seem both alluring and deeply unsavoury.
From Tom's list on revisiting lost London.
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