Jumpers

Stoppard, Tom

£9.99

One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. In this play, Stoppard parodies the philosophy lecturer, the detective thriller, the comedy of manners and the Whitehall farce.

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Publish Date: 01/08/1986
ISBN: 9780571145690 Category: Tag:

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The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard brilliantly parodies the philosophy lecture, the detective thriller, the comedy of manners and the Whitehall farce, to follow a philosopher’s doomed flight to prove the existence of God in the face of an indifferent universe.

This is the definitive text of Tom Stoppard’s celebrated comedy.

‘A dazzling, hilarious and honestly benevolent work, which creates a dramatic structure from a forbidding diversity of materials.’ The Times

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Weight 83 g
Dimensions 198 × 126 × 7 mm
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Paperback

Pages

80

Language

English

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General – Trade / Code: K