The Unspeakable Skipton
- Editore:
Prion (GB)
- Collana:
- Prion Humour Classics
- EAN:
9781853754715
- ISBN:
1853754714
- Pagine:
- 192
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Unspeakable Skipton
Daniel Skipton is a Pioneer in Art. He's also a rogue who hasn't done an honest day's work in his life. Instead, he bullies support out of aging relatives he's never met and harangues his publisher for advances on non-existent projects. The world owes Skipton a living, but it doesn't want to pay up. Outraged by life and choked with anger, our self-proclaimed literary genius lives by his wits in the Belgian city of Bruges. Along with a pack of disreputable allies--among them, Wouvermans the "antiques dealer" and Mimi the "performance artist"--he swindles a group of naive English tourists into unwittingly supporting his meager lifestyle. As Ruth Rendell makes clear in her introduction, "The Unspeakable Skipton" is a wickedly funny sketch of the artist at his worst.