With film rights acquired by Francis Ford Coppola, this comic novel of instant riches is back in stock. From the author of A Clockwork Orange, One Hand Clapping is a comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life. The tragi-comedy of used car salesman Howard Shirley, his photographic brain, and the modern world's trivia and trivialities makes for vintage Burgessat once hilarious and provocative. "Witty and shrewdly joyful."The New York Times Book Review "A funny, pointed novel."The New Yorker "Ingeniously and devilishly funny."The Atlantic Monthly"
- ISBN10 1474253814
- ISBN13 9781474253819
- Publish Date 13 April 2015 (first published December 1964)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Methuen Drama
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 80
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/