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952402Carethttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/caret/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1256568/db0f0e60-dd4e-45d2-b48a-8a22788d6f8f.jpg?v=638580846047030000368449MXNFaber & FaberInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Joyous.</strong> <em>Observer</em><br /><strong>Tremendously entertaining.</strong> <em>Irish Times</em><br /><strong>Truly original.</strong> <em>The Times</em></p><p><strong> A <em>Times</em> and <em>Guardian</em> Book of the Year </strong></p><p>We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Whos to say that the centre of things isnt in a corner, way over there?</p><p>Nobody can be a person twenty-fours hours a day - it just cant be done. At night the sets dissolve and the performance falls away. Were off the books.</p><p>Thats John Cromer talking, in this fresh instalment of his lifelong saga. For John, embarking on a new stage of life in 1970s Cambridge, charm and wit arent just assets, they are survival skills. It may be a case of John against the world. If so, dont be in too much of a hurry to bet on the world.</p><p>Conjuring a remarkable voice and mind, <em>Caret</em> is a feast of a novel, served on a succession of small plates, each portion providing an adults daily intake of literary nourishment. Reading it - like any encounter with John Cromer -- is guaranteed to help you work, rest and play.</p><p>Thank god for John Cromer and his creator Adam Mars-Jones, one of the funniest, most self-aware characters in English fiction, whose minute observations on everything from constipation to lust are a source of unexpected delight. Linda Grant</p>...948895Caret368449https://www.gandhi.com.mx/caret/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1256568/db0f0e60-dd4e-45d2-b48a-8a22788d6f8f.jpg?v=638580846047030000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239780571280070_W3siaWQiOiIzOTM2NTY4NS03YjA1LTRhMWMtOTc4OC1jNzY5NzUxZWJhNzYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ0OSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjgxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjM2OCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDZUMTc6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780571280070_<p>Pilcrow is a humdinger, a startling work that stands out against the monotonousfield of contemporary British fiction as a genuine, almost miraculous oddity.[.] A 500-page novel about a boy who cant get out of bed might seem like anightmare but for a master of comic observation like Mars-Jones it is a gift.MetroMars-Jones scrupulous, compound eye enables him to see an entire era . . . Hecan describe more or less anything and make it interesting. London Review ofBooksPlenty can be daunting, but in the spirit of compromise this feast of a novel isserved on a succession of small plates, each portion providing an adults dailyintake of literary nourishment in episodes that are variously sweet and sour. Forstarters theres the time John spends living out of his beloved Mini in 1970sCambridge, before settling into a life of qualified independence. The wholebanquet is accompanied by lashings of Johns ideas about the Lady Godiva ofmilitant twelfth-century Hindu poetry, about the eroticism of fine glassware, theomnipresence of the number 108 and the undeclared war between wheelchairsand carpet tiles.Caret is a long book but not a heavy one, its prose triple-whipped to guarantee alight and creamy texture. Reading it is guaranteed to help you work, rest andplay.</p>...(*_*)9780571280070_<p><strong>Joyous.</strong> <em>Observer</em><br /><strong>Tremendously entertaining.</strong> <em>Irish Times</em><br /><strong>Truly original.</strong> <em>The Times</em></p><p><strong> A <em>Times</em> and <em>Guardian</em> Book of the Year </strong></p><p><em>We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Whos to say that the centre of things isnt in a corner, way over there?<br />Nobody can be a person twenty-fours hours a day - it just cant be done. At night the sets dissolve and the performance falls away. Were off the books.</em><br /><strong>Thats John Cromer talking, in this fresh instalment of his lifelong saga. For John, embarking on a new stage of life in 1970s Cambridge, charm and wit arent just assets, they are survival skills. It may be a case of John against the world. If so, dont be in too much of a hurry to bet on the world.<br />Conjuring a remarkable voice and mind, <em>Caret</em> is a feast of a novel, served on a succession of small plates, each portion providing an adults daily intake of literary nourishment. Reading it - like any encounter with John Cromer -- is guaranteed to help you work, rest and play.</strong></p><p>Thank god for John Cromer and his creator Adam Mars-Jones, one of the funniest, most self-aware characters in English fiction, whose minute observations on everything from constipation to lust are a source of unexpected delight. Linda Grant</p>...(*_*)9780571280070_<p><strong>Joyous.</strong> <em>Observer</em><br /><strong>Tremendously entertaining.</strong> <em>Irish Times</em><br /><strong>Truly original.</strong> <em>The Times</em></p><p><strong> A <em>Times</em> and <em>Guardian</em> Book of the Year </strong></p><p>We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Whos to say that the centre of things isnt in a corner, way over there?</p><p>Nobody can be a person twenty-fours hours a day - it just cant be done. At night the sets dissolve and the performance falls away. Were off the books.</p><p>Thats John Cromer talking, in this fresh instalment of his lifelong saga. For John, embarking on a new stage of life in 1970s Cambridge, charm and wit arent just assets, they are survival skills. It may be a case of John against the world. If so, dont be in too much of a hurry to bet on the world.</p><p>Conjuring a remarkable voice and mind, <em>Caret</em> is a feast of a novel, served on a succession of small plates, each portion providing an adults daily intake of literary nourishment. Reading it - like any encounter with John Cromer -- is guaranteed to help you work, rest and play.</p><p>Thank god for John Cromer and his creator Adam Mars-Jones, one of the funniest, most self-aware characters in English fiction, whose minute observations on everything from constipation to lust are a source of unexpected delight. Linda Grant</p>...9780571280070_Faber & Faberlibro_electonico_098efca3-2417-327b-9c76-1ecc13b2f7df_9780571280070;9780571280070_9780571280070Adam Mars-JonesInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/faber-epub-13332e37-6f62-40ee-9e21-ce12e2ee42ee.epub2023-08-15T00:00:00+00:00Faber & Faber