Lady with a Laptop

by D.M. Thomas

Book Overview

The acclaimed author of THE WHITE HOTEL and EATING PAVLOVA offers a deliciously comic novel of the literary life. Marvelous . . . This bitingly satirical and wickedly bawdy . . . novel questions the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786703083
• ISBN13: 9780786703081
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Delightful Romp by a Booker Prize Winner

"Lady with a Laptop" is a howlingly funny sendup of the Greek island setting in which Don Thomas leads workshops and, when this manuscript was in progress, treated attendees to excerpts. There we found ourselves practicing the literary craft in sometimes tense proximity to drum-beating, vegetarian wannabe-shamans. The New Wave personalities and spirit of the place are vividly captured and, for extra spice, the author's alter-ego is faced with an entirely fictive problem: the mysterious death of the title character.