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      Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer

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      'Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton...

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      Description

      Product ID:9780241485736
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:IT
      Series:Penguin Modern Classics
      Title:Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer
      Authors:Author: Russell Hoban
      Page Count:192
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Romance, Romance, London, Greater London
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      'Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong?'A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday'Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer' The Times Literary Supplement

      ''Russell Hoban''s imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound'' The Times

      ''You want to buy my death for a million pounds!'' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong?

      ''A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender'' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday

      ''Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer'' The Times Literary Supplement


      Imprint Name:Penguin Classics
      Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2021-04-29

      Additional information

      Weight150 g
      Dimensions130 × 197 × 16 mm