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Towards The End Of The Morning (Paperback)

by Michael Frayn (Author)
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Michael Frayn's 1960s novel about Fleet Street portrays a newspaper world now long since gone: nefarious practices, very long lunch hours in Fleet Street pubs and the tyranny of the printers. The author also wrote "Sweet Dreams" and "The Trick of It".

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4.0 out of 5 stars Still funny after 36 years, Jan 31 2003
By Steven Reynolds (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Towards The End Of The Morning (Paperback)
Michael Frayn's 1967 Fleet Street novel draws unavoidable comparison with Evelyn Waugh's "Scoop", and that it comes off looking pretty good speaks volumes for Frayn's talent. It tells the story of John Dyson, a middling newspaper man slipping towards the end of his youth and towards the end of his foundering career. It also parallels the end of British print media in its traditional form as it gradually gave way to Americanization, i.e. the unavoidable slip towards television. But Frayn's portrait is a fair one: he isn't suggesting the lager-soaked world of British print was any better than what replaced it. He exploits the humorous potential of both. His dramatization of British class-based social anxiety and the irritating bullishness of American upstarts are both spot-on. Frayn's introduction to this edition interestingly explains the origins of the novel and the actual people and experiences on which it is based.
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