![]() ![]() ![]() All are burdened by human muddle and human cravings all are searching for a moral compass as they grapple with greed, folly, and desire. In Headlong, Michael Frayn, ‘the master of what is seriously funny’ Anthony Burgess, offers a procession of superbly realized characters, from the country squire gone to seed to his giddy, oversexed young wife. So begins a hilarious trail of lies and concealments, desperate schemes and soaring hopes as Martin, betting all that he owns and much that he doesn’t, embarks on a quest to prove his hunch, win his wife over, and separate the painting from its owner. But hiding beneath the soot is nothing less Martin believes than a lost work by Bruegel. Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art historian wife are asked to as*sess three dusty paintings blocking the draught from the chimney. An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master. ![]()
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