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Hobson's Island

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Dalkey Archive Press, 1988 - Fiction - 196 pages
Hobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an empty house to care for. But all is suddenly disrupted when a wave of unusual visitors arrive: a deposed African king fleeing a revolution, a Hobson descendant claiming ownership, government agents eyeing the nation-less real estate, and scientists looking to test a dangerous new invention. In typical Themerson fashion, the comic is would up with the serious and let go to devastating effect. A clever and apt parodying of Cold War power plays and twisted science, Hobson's Island is a strangely touching, sympathetic, and emotional account of the families and individuals brought together and broken up by Hobson's Island.
  

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This is a note on both The Mystery of the Sardine and Hobson's Island, Stefan Themerson's two final novels before his death in 1988. According to the introduction to the latter, the previous thing ... Read full review

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Contents

ONE The Weighing of the President
3
TWO DEath into DEarth
26
THREE Picture Postcard from Bukumla
71
FOUR The English Family Shepherd
84
FIVE start from the beginning
123
six The Salt of the Earth
140
SEVEN Double Helix of Love Hate and Decency
152
EIGHT Teeheehee Ha ha ha Hoo hoo hoo
168
NINE And the Virgin said Ha
177
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About the author (1988)

Stefan Themerson (1910 1988) was born in Poland moved to Russia during the Revolution studied physics and architecture in Warsaw and lived in Paris before settling in London. Aside from his writings which include novels such as Tom Harris, The Mystery of the Sardine, and Professor Mmaas Lecture childrens stories philosophical essays and poemsThemerson also composed music and made a number of films with his wife Franciszka.

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TitleHobson's Island
British literature series
AuthorStefan Themerson
Editionreprint
PublisherDalkey Archive Press, 1988
ISBN1564784177, 9781564784179
Length196 pages
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Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Science Fiction / General
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