TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beauman,Ned
TI  - Madness is better than defeat
SN  - 9780385352994 (hardcover)
AV  - PR6102.E225 M33 2018
U1  - 823/.92 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Psychological
N1  - "This is Borzoi Book."; "Originally published in Great Britain by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company, London, in 2017."
N2  - "A wild, astonishing novel (by arguably England's most accomplished young writer) about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--and the Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus thus far. In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit it for his own ends, unaware that the temple is a locus of conspiracies grander than anyone could ever have guessed. Shot through with insanity, conspiracy, ingenuity, and adventure, showcasing Beauman's anarchic humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat teases, absorbs, entertains, and dazzles in equal measure"--
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