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Description
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is disappointed by the ending of Jane Eyre. But in this world there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic - and a woman called Thursday Next.
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Publication
Penguin Books (2003), Paperback, 400 pages
Pages
400
Physical description
400 p.; 5.06 inches
Awards
Alex Award (2003)
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (Nominee — 2006)
Dilys Award (Nominee — 2003)
IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (Winner — 2002)
Locus Recommended Reading (First Novel — 2001)
Media reviews
Yale Review
Fforde wears the marks of his literary forebears proudly on his sleeve, from Lewis Carroll and Wodehouse to Douglas Adams and Monty Python, in both inventiveness and sense of fun.
Fforde delivers almost every sentence with a sly wink, and he's got an easy way with wordplay, trivia and inside jokes. ''The Eyre Affair'' can be too clever by half, and fiction like this is certainly an acquired taste, but Fforde's verve is rarely less than infectious.
A good editor might have trimmed away some of the annoying padding of this novel and helped the author to assimilate his heavy borrowings from other artists, but no matter: by the end of the novel, Mr. Fforde has, however belatedly, found his own exuberant voice.
THE EYRE AFFAIR is mostly a collection of jokes, conceits and puzzles. It's smart, frisky and sheer catnip for former English majors....And some of the jokes are clever indeed.
Locus
Dark, funny, complex, and inventive, THE EYRE AFFAIR is a breath of fresh air and easily one of the strongest debuts in years.
LCC
PR6106.F67
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ISBN
0142001805 / 9780142001806