With the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. Fforde's exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. Now the written Thursday must answer the call, save the Bookworld, evade capture, and find the actual Thursday With a clockwork Butler in tow, and Men in Plaid as well as her Designated Love Interest in pursuit, she must reluctantly agree to journey up the mysterious Metaphoric River for answers. At a time of great unrest in the Bookworld, only the ace literary detective can avert a devastating Genre War-thing is, Thursday has vanished. Fans can breathe a sigh of relief because Thursday Next-or at least one of her-is back.
Dazzlingly funny and imaginative, Jasper Fforde' s books have won him the affection of readers, reviewers, and-dare we say it-booksellers alike. The 'New York Times' bestseller and the wildly inventive sixth installment of a series that has more than one million copies (and counting) in print. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback.
“A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb” “Forget all the rules of time, space and reality just sit back and enjoy the adventure.” ake a joy ride with the passionate reader who wrote this novel.” “ One of Our Thursdays is Missing is filled with passages which geeky humor jostles with genuine insight about the current state of fiction. “Fforde’s diabolical meshing of insight and humor makes a ‘mimefield’ both frightening and funny, while the reader must traverse a volume that’s minefield of unexpected turns and amusing twists.” “There is no denying Fforde’s supersized imagination, linguistic agility and love of books, Books, BOOKS.” “ One of Our Thursdays is Missing, like other Fforde novels, is jam packed with spot-on parody, puns and wry observations about words and genres that will delight literary-minded fans of the series.”
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