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The Golden Child (Paperback, Reissue)
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The Golden Child (Paperback, Reissue)
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List price R302
Loot Price R274
Discovery Miles 2 740
You Save R28 (9%)
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England's answer to the King Tut madness - the "Golden Child"
exhibit at London's great Museum - inspires a literate
mystery-comedy that begins superbly but soon becomes far too knotty
and cutely frazzled. Waring Smith, a junior officer at the Museum
and chum of ancient Sir William Simpson (who unearthed the Golden
Child tomb in Africa decades ago but now just putters about the
Museum), is sent to Russia when the Museum suspects that there may
be fakes among its borrowed Golden Child treasures. Indeed, Smith
sees all the real Golden goodies in the Kremlin (!) and returns -
only to find that Sir Will has been murdered in the Museum library.
The clues include lots of silly hieroglyphics, and Smith's
assistant sleuths include a professor named Untermensch and a
socialist dissident on the Museum staff. Several bright comic
moments, a few nicely Wodehousian oddballs, and some museum satire
directly relatable to Tut - but Fitzgerald's formula plot is only
half hidden behind all those obvious red herrings and all those
hard-working verbal grace notes. (Kirkus Reviews)
'The Golden Child', Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, is
a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of
the Golden Child at a London museum. Far be it for the hapless
Waring Smith, junior officer at a prominent London museum, to
expect any kind of thanks for his work on the opening of the year's
biggest exhibition - The Golden Child. But when he is nearly
strangled to death by a shadowy assailant and packed off to Moscow
to negotiate with a mysterious curator, he finds himself at the
centre of a sinister web of conspiracy, fraudulent artifacts and
murder... Her first novel and a comic gem, 'The Golden Child' is
written with the sharp wit and unerring eye for human foibles that
mark Penelope Fitzgerald out as a truly inimitable author, and one
to be cherished.
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