Jem (And Sam) A Novel
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Although Jeremiah Mount receives only passing notice in the celebrated diary of Samuel Pepys, in Jem's own memoirs Sam figures significantly and large -- not as a fellow clerk in Oliver Cromwell's government but as an ill-natured, galling colleague and measly mouse of a man who sets the professionally envious Jem on a hapless path of revenge. Their personal destinies criss-crossing to wildly ironic ends, Jem (and Sam) not only pursue worldly successes and their erotic whims in a bustling, boisterous city of London. They also survive war, rebellion, pestilence, and the Great Fire. Less fortunately, in his final bid for literary fame, Jem falls into a fatal vat of boiling ink, but not before recounting the adventures in this rollicking novel's marvelous fabrication of a man and his times.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780786707454 |
Publisher: | Carroll & Graf |
Imprint: | Carroll & Graf |
Pub date: | 08 May 2000 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 432 |
Weight: | 567g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 140mm |
Spine width: | 32mm |