ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP |
Each month, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. Our May selection is Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser. Meet Harry Flashman—in the wildly funny and historically accurate cult classic that introduced us to history's greatest adventurer, randiest cad, and most incorrigible scoundrel.
Flashman follows Flashy as he lies, steals, duels, and wenches his way from 1839 England to India to the wilds of Afghanistan. Along the way, he survives military incompetence, ambushes, torture, venomous snakes, and vengeful women...and emerges against all odds as a bona fide hero of the realm. Jane Smiley calls them, "Unfailingly funny...Fraser's use of the English language is masterful and playful at the same time." John Updike called it "Brilliant" and Vanity Fair said of Fraser's books, "A novelistic gallop through history and imagination...Fraser can easily juggle Conan Doyle and Holmes, Fleming and Bond, Wodehouse and Wooster, and Chandler and Marlowe."
- Street:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
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- 1521 Tenth Avenue
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
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- 98122
- Country:
- United States
