Thursday Next: First Among Sequels

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - In this hilarious [and] invigorating romp for all lovers of literature (Associated Press) Thursday Next returns to rescue reading from certain destruction--again--the mind-blowing (<i>The Seattle Times</i>) fifth installment of the renowned Thursday Next series.</b> <p/><b>[With a] furiously agile imagination . . . Fforde has shaken up genres--fantasy comedy crime sci-fi parody literary criticism--and come up with a superb mishmash.--<i>The Miami Herald</i></b> <p/>Fourteen years after she pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in the Book World: a recalcitrant new apprentice the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy novels. The Council of Genres is trying to broker a peace deal between certain antagonistic genres: Racy Novel has been recklessly placed between Ecclesiastical and Feminist and they are at each other's throats. <p/>Meanwhile back in Swindon the government is reporting a dangerously high stupidity surplus and Thursday's idle sixteen-year-old son would rather sleep all day than follow his destiny as a member of the ChronoGuard. Not only does she captain the ship <i>Moral Dilemma </i>to the very limits of acceptable narrative possibilities but Thursday also finds she must face down her most vicious enemy yet: herself. <p/><b>Don't miss any of Jasper Fforde's delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels: </b><br>THE EYRE AFFAIR - LOST IN A GOOD BOOK - THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS - SOMETHING ROTTEN - FIRST AMONG SEQUELS - ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING - THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT