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At times in his life, Tom Harris is a dull schoolboy, an apprentice barber, a delinquent husband, an old man with a monkey who drinks at the Green Man Pub, "il professore Harris" at the University of Genoa, and possibly a murderer. But the question of who the elusive Tom Harris really is, and what crimes he has really committed, obsesses the narrator of this novel. Tom Harris can perhaps be described as a sort of philosophical detective story, ingeniously plotted and wittily told with a stylistic virtuosity on par with the most playful works of Raymond Queneau.

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"When all is said and done, Themerson is of the company of Carroll and Queneau, a master of controlled inconsequence, God's spy with no one to give reports to, a fine flea in the ear of the modern novel." - Robert Nye, Guardian; "Stefan Themerson has an absolutely elegant sense of humor." - Albert Goldman, New York Times"

Tom Harris

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    A Paperback / softback by Stefan Themerson, Nicholas Wadley

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      Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
      Published 16 December 2004
      ISBN-13 9781564783714
      978-1564783714
      ISBN-10 1564783715

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      At times in his life, Tom Harris is a dull schoolboy, an apprentice barber, a delinquent husband, an old man with a monkey who drinks at the Green Man Pub, "il professore Harris" at the University of Genoa, and possibly a murderer. But the question of who the elusive Tom Harris really is, and what crimes he has really committed, obsesses the narrator of this novel. Tom Harris can perhaps be described as a sort of philosophical detective story, ingeniously plotted and wittily told with a stylistic virtuosity on par with the most playful works of Raymond Queneau.

      Trade Review
      "When all is said and done, Themerson is of the company of Carroll and Queneau, a master of controlled inconsequence, God's spy with no one to give reports to, a fine flea in the ear of the modern novel." - Robert Nye, Guardian; "Stefan Themerson has an absolutely elegant sense of humor." - Albert Goldman, New York Times"

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