The Great Pursuit

Resumen del libro

Frensic and Futtle is a small and successful literary agency. But following a successful court case by a woman who claimed to have been libeled by one of their authors, the agency rapidly loses business. One day, a manuscript for a book called Pause O Men for the Virgin arrives at the agency, together with a note from the author's solicitor, saying that the author wishes to remain anonymous and that the agency has carte blanche on how it deals with the book.

The book turns out to deal with the love affair between an 80-year old woman and a 17-year old youth. The populist American publisher Hutchmeyer agrees to sign a deal to publish the book in the United States for 2 million, providing the author carries out a promotional tour of the country. Sonia and Frensic decide to use aspiring but unpublished author Peter Piper to stand in for the anonymous author.

But when Piper receives a proof copy of Pause from the publisher by mistake, it takes a certain amount of persuasion and arm-twisting from Sonia Futtle to convince Piper to travel to America.
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Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Tom Sharpex{0026}lt;/strong (1928-2013) nació en Londres y se educó en Cambridge. En 1951 se trasladó a Sudáfrica: allí vivió hasta 1961, fecha en que fue deportado y regresó a su país, donde se dedicó únicamente a escribir. Falleció en Llafranc, un pueblecito de lx{0026} x02019;Empordà donde residió durante mucho tiempo. Es considerado uno de los novelistas más divertidos de todos los tiempos. En Anagrama se han publicado todas sus novelas: x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Reunión tumultuosax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Exhibición impúdicax{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Zafarrancho en Cambridgex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El temible Blottx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Wiltx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La gran pesquisax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El bastardo recalcitrantex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Las tribulaciones de Wiltx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Vicios ancestralesx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Una dama en apurosx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em ¡Ánimo, Wilt!x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Becas flacasx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Lo peor de cada casax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Wilt no se aclarax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La herencia de Wiltx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Los Gropex{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em , así como su biografía x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Fragmentos de inexistenciax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , de Miquel Martín i Serra.x{0026}lt;/p