![]() ![]() Jerome will later immortalize Ned's fumbling. In one scene the hero, Ned Henry, and his friends come upon Jerome, two men, and the dog Montmorency in-you guessed it-a boat. Jerome's singular, and hilarious, Three Men in a Boat. ![]() Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle? Its title is the subtitle of Jerome K. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-traveling tale, or a highly comic romp, or a great, allusive literary game, complete with spry references to Dorothy L. ![]() Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest.He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump.It's part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier.īut then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past.Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right-not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself.Ī ReviewTo Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. “From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel. ![]()
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