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A Landing on the Sun

By: Michael Frayn
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571204341
ISBN-13: 9780571204342
Released: 03 Jul 2000
RRP: £7.99
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Witty love story - By: Celia Mason, 05 May 2004
A lovely mixture of wit, tragedy, an expose of the mind of the middle ranking civil servant, & throughout, two love stories bubbling to the surface despite their protagonists' attempts to ignore them. Very funny & very sad, often in the space of a page or two.
Could not put this book down - By: , 05 Sep 2001
An excellent read which encompasses amongst other things suspense, philosophical debate & a love story. Although the plot is essentiallly about two people in a different era, the glimpses into the narrator's own personal life leave you wanting for more. This is an interesting insight into the workings of the Civil Service which highlights superbly how public money can be wasted.
Paper-shuffling turns into psychological tease - By: , 19 Sep 2000
By turns touching & very funny, A Landing on the Sun charts a colourless civil servant's gradual unravellings of the mystery of a nameless committee headed by a late, suicidal colleague. Frayn doles out the information in calculated driblets, & the first few chapters do require patience, but - as with Headlong - the story then snares alll your interest. I first read this during an extremely long & tedious train journey, but by the end would have willingly postponed arrival to reach the novel's conclusion more quickly..