One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - (Thursday Next Novel) by Jasper Fforde (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"New York Times-"bestselling author Jasper Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination. Fans will rejoice that their favorite character in the Fforde universe is back.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The sixth installment in Jasper Fforde's <i>New York Times</i> bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England--from the author of <i>Early Riser</i></b> <p/>Dazzlingly funny and imaginative, Jasper Fforde's books have won him the affection of readers, reviewers, and-dare we say it-booksellers alike. Fans can breathe a sigh of relief because Thursday Next-or at least one of her-is back. 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. 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>One of Our Thursdays is Missing</i>, 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."<br><b>--<i>Los Angeles Times<br></i></b><br> "There is no denying Fforde's supersized imagination, linguistic agility and love of books, Books, BOOKS."<br><b>--<i>Chicago Sun-Times<br></i></b><br> "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."<br><b>--<i>Publishers Weekly<br></i></b><br> "<i>One of Our Thursdays is Missing</i> is filled with passages [in] which geeky humor jostles with genuine insight about the current state of fiction. . . . [T]ake a joy ride with the passionate reader who wrote this novel."<br><b>--<i>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<br></i></b><br> "Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure."<br><b><i>--Sunday Telegraph<br></i></b><br> "A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb"<br><b>--Daily Mail</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling series of Thursday Next novels, which includes <i>Lost in a Good Book</i>, <i>The Well of Lost Plots</i>, <i>Something Rotten</i>, <i>First Among Sequels</i>, <i>One of Our Thursdays is Missing</i>, and <i>The Woman Who Died A Lot</i>. The series has more than one million copies (and counting) in print. He is also the author of <i>The Big Over Easy</i> and <i>The Fourth Bear</i> of the Nursery Crime series, <i>Shades of Grey</i>, and books for young readers, including <i>The Last Dragonslayer</i>. Visit jasperfforde.com.<p></p><p></p>
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