Chaos reigns in Ned Beauman’s absurdist comedy, and narrator Eric Meyers delivers an upbeat, nuanced narration—even with his tongue planted firmly in cheek. CIA agent Zonulet narrates his history of the dastardly doings of the agency. In 1938, two rival groups carry out expeditions to the ruins of an ancient temple in the Honduran jungle. One group will use the temple as a movie location for HEARTS IN DARKNESS, a film sounding suspiciously like a comic version of Conrad’s classic. The second group’s goal is to break down the temple, move it, and reconstruct it in New York City. But why? Eventually, the groups’ mutual hostility grows into a warlike state. Meyers adds zing to the clever dialogue and turns Beauman’s outrageous situations into giggles and belly laughs. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues. Twenty years later, a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit the temple for his own ends, unaware that it is a locus of conspiracies far grander than anyone could ever have guessed.
Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beauman's riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.
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Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beauman's riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.
Madness Is Better Than Defeat: A novel
In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues. Twenty years later, a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit the temple for his own ends, unaware that it is a locus of conspiracies far grander than anyone could ever have guessed.
Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beauman's riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.
Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beauman's riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.
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BN ID: | 2940171819552 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 02/13/2018 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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