Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon: A Novel

Review

“A beautiful, funny novel.” –New Republic.“Clever, amusing,
diverting…” –New York Times“Zany, aphoristic and flashy… a remarkable
entertainment, remarkably funny.” –Washington Post“This bizarre carnival
of a first novel is written with the same rapier-like wit that distinguishes Mr.
Stoppard’s hit play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead…” –Publishers
Weekly“The pace of the romp never slackens, and the fusillade of puns,
travesty, parody, double entendres is rapid… Stoppard’s talent as an entertainer
is certain and brilliant.” –Vogue Magazine

Product Description

Tom Stoppard’s first novel, originally published in 1966 just before the
premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is an uproarious fantasy set
in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a
liveried coach; Malquist’s Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically
scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket; a couple of cowboys, one being named
Jasper Jones; a lion who’s banned from the Ritz; an Irishman on a donkey
claiming to be the Risen Christ; and three irresistible women.