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Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. The author observes, not kindly, the retreat of the British empire in Africa in this spoof of everyone up to the Prime Minister and down to visiting U.S. anthropologists...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. In a masterful spoof on the mess in Africa, chiefly at the expense of the retreating British Empire, the author proves himself a Tarzan of the japes...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. "Who clipped the lion's wings?" asked T. S. Eliot. In this satirical novel about the decline of the British Empire in Africa, a former colonial official answers the question with a masterful spoof...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. "Who clipped the lion's wings?" asked T. S. Eliot. In this satirical novel about the decline of the British Empire in Africa, a former colonial official answers the question with a masterful spoof...
This gives Author Ian Brook (a pseudonym) plenty of opportunity to rib the retreating Empire right up to No. 10 Downing Street, and to fire deft, satiric shots at everybody from an American anthropologist studying illiteracy among Alabasa's albinos to the new class of boorish, lawyer-bred African politicians ("The Prime Minister of the Colony laughed and picked at the hard skin on the ball of his foot"). Except for a dramatically faulty attempt to give Jimmy a realistic love affair, out of keeping with the otherwise admirably sustained, two-dimensional tone of spoof, Jimmy Riddle emerges...