F: A Novel

F: A NovelA comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity' John Burnside Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family fakers, all of them and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them. Having achieved

He was democratically elected

John must dodge both Essex and his ruthless adversary for the queen's affections

and a lit professor whose roller-derby nom de skate is Stone Cold Jane Austen

For more than two thousand years

designers and manufacturers to the origins of the style

Follow Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem and celebrate the birth of baby Jesus by pressing the magical sound buttons and bringing each page to life

by last name

Possessing the strength of one hundred men

a man whose heart leads his brain and for whom opportunity just hasn't come knocking - yet

Often the stories turn on a single

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including: How 007 became James Bond's number Imaginary numbers and how they exist How the binary system manages to say so much with only two numbers That bedding has nothing to do with being "three sheets to the wind" The burning literary question: Why did Ray Bradbury name his novel Fahrenheit 451