Pomp and Circumstance - A novel (Paperback, New Ed)

A first novel from a well-known playwright inevitably has the earmarks of a play in the making. The situations are highlighted for advancing the plot; the dialogue is full of the kind of nuances and double entendres and sly humor that one associates with Noel Coward. And the overall picture affords endless opportunities. Unfortunately, Noel Coward does not seem to have made up his mind which of two plots to use:- he has first the temptation of endless opportunities offered when a remote Pacific Island in the British Empire is confronted with the pending visit of the Queen and Prince Philip; he then complicates the lives of the principals further by injecting a liaison between a London beauty and a local bachelor who thinks that at last he has really fallen in love. He pursues first one thread, then the other, and while the affaire and all its complications of chicken pox and sexual deviations proceeds to a happy ending, the preparations for the royal visit come to complete disaster without beginning to explore the possibilities. The substance is of less concern in final analysis than the method of handling it. (Kirkus Reviews)

First published in 1960, Pomp and Circumstance, Coward's only novel, was greeted with wide critical acclaim. 'A South Sea Bubble of a book it is, with a Royal Visit expected on the Island of Samolo, and the narrator, a mother of three, dealing with everything from chicken-pox to the amours of a visiting Duchess' (Daily Telegraph); 'If there is anywhere on earth where the old Coward world still credibly lingers on, it is probably a fairly peaceful tropical colony ruled over by a British Governor General ...Coward's long cast list might have walked out of one of his better comedies' (Evening Standard); 'It is all good, near-clean fun, magnificently readable' (Sunday Times).

General

Imprint:	Methuen Drama
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	1983
Authors:	Noel Coward
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-413-56370-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-413-56370-7
Barcode:	9780413563705

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