Ride a Cockhorse

Raymond Kennedy

£9.99

A rollicking cautionary tale brimful with gleeful obscenity and an irresistably compelling antiheroine

Paperback

Daunt Books Publishing > Fiction

ISBN: 9781911547785

Published May 2021 by Daunt Books Publishing

Description

‘Looking back, Mrs Fitzgibbons could not recall which of the major changes in her life had come about first, the discovery that she possessed a gift for persuasive speech, or the sudden quickening of her libido.’

Forty-five-year-old Frances Fitzgibbons is a loan officer at a New England bank, known for her polite discretion and kindly, tolerant disposition. Suddenly she transforms almost overnight: seducing a high-school student, usurping her boss as vice president, and firing anyone who crosses her. 

Once Frankie has found her voice – which arrives fully-formed, without hesitation or thought – resistance is futile. It’s not long before she has a gang of devoted acolytes, including her hairdresser and son-in-law, and her plans to obliterate the competition can run unchecked. 

First published in 1990 and set against the financial crisis of 1987, Ride a Cockhorse is a rollicking cautionary tale brimful with snappy dialogue and gleeful obscenity – and an irresistibly compelling antiheroine.

‘An unexpectedly hilarious delight.’ – Monocle

‘Perhaps the funniest American novel since John Kennedy Toole’s prize winner, A Confederacy of Dunces.’ – Newsweek

‘She is, clearly, monstrous and manipulative, enjoying an almost sexual thrill when she fires people or makes them subservient to her will; but she sure as hell lights the story up (she is the story, of course) and we are, naturally, goggle-eyed to see what she’ll get up to next.’ – Guardian

Ride a Cockhorse is at once high comedy and a mordant account of the paranoid personality . . . The best comic novel to come my way in a long time.’ –Washington Post

‘Kennedy is a master storyteller.’ – Raymond Carver

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Weight 0.45 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm