The Fall and Rise of Gordon Coppinger
A Fiction, Humor book. It gets two stars because I didn't hate it all...
The much-anticipated latest novel from David Nobbs, The Fall and Rise of Gordon Coppinger, is the spiritual follow-up to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and is as witty as it is prescient.Meet Sir Gordon Coppinger: globally-successful financier and owner of Canary Wharf’s The Coppinger Tower. A reluctant father, shameless adulterer, and devotee of all things extravagant, Gordon lives an exclusive life filled with fine wines and surrounded by servants and mistresses. It would seem...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 400 pages
- ISBN: 9780007286300 / 0
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Not very amusing. Nobbs was not on top form with this one. It gets two stars because I didn't hate it all the way through, I just didn't "get" it. I didn't find the humour that funny, it wasn't absurd enough to be absurd or sharp enough to be that satirical. I found the plot a bit of a muddle and the pacing a bit patchy. It dragged at times. And I hated the ending. I don't know if he was aiming... I was looking for Reginald Perrin in the library and found this - by the same author , almost the same title , but absolutely not the same quality .
