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Title: Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer ISBN: 0-14-009864-X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Mortimer's best non-Rumpole book
Comment: I'm biased: I think John Mortimer's Rumpole stories are so perfectly written that I've never thought his longer works quite measure up. This one comes the closest; in Paradise Postponed, Mortimer follows a disparate group of characters from the Second World War up through the late 1960s, using their stories to reflect developments in England during the same period. As you might expect from the creator of Rumpole, there's also an interesting mystery, but the real focus is on the relationships and dynamics between the characters, as Mortimer centers on a young man from a working class background who eventually becomes a powerful politician. Mortimer has an uncanny knack for creating characters who are believable, quirky individuals, and he makes us care about their struggles. The dialogue crackles, which one might expect since Mortimer was writing the TV adaptation of Paradise Postponed at the same time he was writing the novel. Paradise Postponed has had two sequels, which don't have quite the same scope either in terms of character development or time period covered.
What surprises me is that the TV adaptation of Paradise Postponed has never been released on video, at least in the U.S. There'd be a large market for it.
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Title: Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War by Peter Stansky, William Miller Abrahams ISBN: 0804723419 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality by Richard Overy ISBN: 0393322971 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption: The Mind of the Easter Rising, 1916 by Sean Farrell Moran, Sean Farrell Moran ISBN: 0813209129 Publisher: Catholic University of America Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London by Shawn Levy ISBN: 0767905881 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell ISBN: 0195133323 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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