The Further Letters Of Henry Root
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Henry Root
Binding: Hardback
Published: BCA, 1981
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
The Further Letters of Henry Root presents a sharp and irreverent work of satirical nonfiction, chronicling the outrageous correspondence of a fictional retired fish merchant to prominent public figures. Root bombards politicians, celebrities, and institutions with absurd proposals and unsolicited advice, all delivered with faux sincerity and biting wit. The book illustrates the absurdity of bureaucracy and public discourse by exposing the earnest replies his letters provoke, revealing the tension between official decorum and private bewilderment. Through this epistolary performance, Root skewers British social norms, right-wing eccentricities, and the performative nature of public life. The result is a brilliantly constructed farce that argues for the power of mischief as social critique.
Author: Henry Root
Binding: Hardback
Published: BCA, 1981
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
The Further Letters of Henry Root presents a sharp and irreverent work of satirical nonfiction, chronicling the outrageous correspondence of a fictional retired fish merchant to prominent public figures. Root bombards politicians, celebrities, and institutions with absurd proposals and unsolicited advice, all delivered with faux sincerity and biting wit. The book illustrates the absurdity of bureaucracy and public discourse by exposing the earnest replies his letters provoke, revealing the tension between official decorum and private bewilderment. Through this epistolary performance, Root skewers British social norms, right-wing eccentricities, and the performative nature of public life. The result is a brilliantly constructed farce that argues for the power of mischief as social critique.