Product Description
After driving through a red light, Howard Baker, an architect, is catapulted into heaven - which turns out to be a metropolis, with skyscrapers, expressways and comprehensive schools. Howard's adventures and achievements provide Frayn with opportunities to satirize modern upper-middle-class life.
About the Author
Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the
Guardian and the
Observer. His novels include
Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and
A Landing on the Sun. Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. His thirteen plays range from
Noises Off to
Copenhagen, and he has translated a number of works, mostly from Russian. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.
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