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Lantern Lecture is a stunning debut by a young British writer of extraordinary gifts. Each of the three stories in this collection is a virtuoso performance, a juggling of unlikely subjects and unusual styles that dazzles the reader with the effortless mastery of both tone and content. The stories concern people who are so far from the centre of things that they have to invent the world as they go along (an eccentric, a criminal) and also people (a judge, a Queen) who are so deeply identified with an institution that they somehow cease to exist. But subject matter is only the beginning. The magical transformation of factual material into something sheerly imaginative is one to the hallmarks of the writing. So Lantern Lecture makes of a chaotic true romance an intricate construction that is, for all its brevity and symmetry, almost a transistorised novel. Hoosh-mi, by contract subjects the idea of royalty to a whirlwind of subversive devices. It is an outrageous satire, but is also exhibits a sneaking fondness for its subject. It is a watercolour as well as a cartoon. The longest story, Bathpool Park, is closely based on a famous criminal trial. It sets out to be faithful to the fac

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Author

Adam Mars-Jones

Publisher

Faber Faber Inc.

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330268059

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.38 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14