Ponthe Oldenguine by Andrew Hook

By Andrew Hook

a brief novel written by means of Andrew Hook, within the sort of slipstream. the key heritage of Ponthe Oldenguine's misplaced BBC courses and cake stomping for dessert.

Ponthe Oldenguine is one half fictional biography of a former tv impresario who claims he is been hounded out of media historical past, and one half biography of the journalist commissioned to write down his tale. the place the stories merge, there's madness.

If you will have an image of the long run, Trunka, think a boot stamping on a cake ceaselessly. think simply how excellent that will be.

Comic, curious, occasionally downright outrageous, Ponthe Oldenguine is a brain-trip during the forgotten files of the BBC: Captain Crowface, Radio Cardboard Fox, and town of Theberton are yet the various seminal programs once restrained to the garbage bin and now exhumed in your studying excitement. half 1984, half Python, half slipstream, half realism, the lifestyles of Ponthe Oldenguine is an audacious try to repair the stability among sanity and madness; illustrating what a skinny line which could be.

So, position your snout within the air, your arms in your tummy, and dance. yet learn it and think it at your peril.

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