Destined to be one of the most talked about first novels of 2003, an extraordinary tour de force by a miraculously gifted young author. Politics is not about politics. It is a comedy about everything else. Politics explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette. What should the sleeping arrangements be in a menage a trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you? Is it permissible to be jealous? If you have eczema, should you complain that undinism can be painful? It also tells the story of a ... Read More
Destined to be one of the most talked about first novels of 2003, an extraordinary tour de force by a miraculously gifted young author. Politics is not about politics. It is a comedy about everything else. Politics explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette. What should the sleeping arrangements be in a menage a trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you? Is it permissible to be jealous? If you have eczema, should you complain that undinism can be painful? It also tells the story of a father and daughter. And at the same time, it is about Milan Kundera, blow jobs, Chairman Mao's personal hygiene, Jewishness, half-Jewishness, goodness, Bollywood, selfishness, Hitler's sexual fetishes, holidays, shopping trips, premature ejaculation, the Queen Mother, thrush, Stalin on the phone, politeness, Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony, and pink fluffy handcuffs. Politics is a comedy about kindness. Tender, shocking, original, Politics is the most distinctive debut since Martin Amis's The Rachel Papers. Read Less
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First edition (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), vii, 280pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Slight tanning of the contents, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. Signed by the author on the title page. ISBN 0224071041.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. 1st Printing. A VG+ UK first edition, first printing hardback in a near fine unclipped dustjacket-All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR-Pictures of the book are available upon request.
