Something Rotten

"Fine, new, clean, crisp and unread first printing in sharp aquamarine boards, black spine with turquoise metallic titles, in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Something Rotten is the fourth in the series of bookish adventures for the intrepid Thursday Next."

From Publisher:

Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction, enough with Emperor Zhark's pointlessly dramatic entrances, outbreaks of slapstick raging across pulp genres, and hacking her hair off to fill in for Joan of Arc. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. Caring for both is more than a full- time job and Thursday decides it is definitely time to get her husband Landen back, if only to babysit. Luckily, those responsible for Landen's eradication, The Goliath Corporation? formerly an oppressive multinational conglomerate, now an oppressive multinational religion? have pledged to right the wrong.

But returning to SpecOps isn?t a snap. When outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine seeks to get himself elected dictator, he whips up a frenzy of anti-Danish sentiment and demands mass book burnings. The return of Swindon's patron saint bearing divine prophecies could spell the end of the world within five years, possibly faster if the laughably terrible Swindon Mallets don?t win the Superhoop, the most important croquet tournament in the land. And if that's not bad enough, "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is becoming entangled with "Hamlet." Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she prevent the world from plunging into war? Can she vanquish Kaine before he realizes his dream of absolute power? And, most important, will she ever find reliable child care? Find out in this totally original, action-packed romp, sure to be another escapist thrill for Jasper Fforde's growing legion of fans.

Product Info

ISBN: 0670033596

ISBN-13: 9780670033591

Publisher: Viking Press

Year: 2004

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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