Tom Harris PA

by Themerson,Stefan

• ISBN13: 9781564783714
• ISBN10: 1564783715
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-11-17
• Publisher: JOHN MUIR

Summary

At times in his life, Tom Harris is a dull,schoolboy, an apprentice barber, a delinquent,husband, an old man with a monkey who drinks at,the Green Man Pub, ""il professore Harris"" at the,University of Genoa, and possibly a murderer. But,the question of who the elusive Tom Harris really,is, and what crimes he has really committedobsesses the narrator of this novel. Tom Harris,can perhaps be described as a sort of,philosophical detective story, ingeniously plotted,and wittily told with a stylistic virtuosity on,par with the works of Raymond Queneau.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: ON STEFAN THEMERSON	vii
PART/ONE
Autumn 1938 LONDON	3	(10)
Spring 1963 MILAN	13	(15)
GENOA	28	(18)
THE SEVEN DOCKERS	46	(15)
LETTERS	61	(15)
GIUSEPPE	76	(12)
CASA BIANCA	88	(24)
TIME BODYGUARD	112	(17)
THE ENVELOPE	129	(8)
DEPARTURE	137	(8)
PART/TWO
Summer 1963 LONDON	145	(6)
FIRST ATTEMPT AT RECONSTRUCTION	151	(6)
SECOND ATTEMPT AT RECONSTRUCTION	157	(8)
THIRD ATTEMPT AT RECONSTRUCTION	165
PAMELA	166	(44)
THE RED KNIGHT'S FOLLY	210	(45)
HELEN	255