Late Hector Kipling - by David Thewlis (Paperback)

About the Book

A wickedly funny black comedy from actor Thewlis, this work features a man whose midlife crisis leads him to acts of not-so-quiet desperation, supreme idiocy--and murder.

Book Synopsis

At turns warm, witty, and joyfully absurd, David Thewlis's wicked comedy marks the debut of a savagely funny and observant literary talent.

Hector Kipling is a famous artist. But Hector is not as famous as his best friend, Lenny Snook. And as t

Review Quotes

"[The Late Hector Kipling] is a rollicking, no-corpsesbarred black comedy...the art-world milieu is deftly handled, and there's a splendidly mean and morbid wit at play.... Thewlis has talent." -- Kirkus Reviews

"[A] laugh-out-loud, darkly intelligent debut...a thought-provoking skewering of modern art by a knowledgeable writer and an inescapably doomed but appealing hero." -- Publishers Weekly

"David Thewlis has written an extraordinarily good novel that is not only brilliant in its own right but which stands proudly beside his work as an actor, no mean boast. He is the epitome of the true Renaissance man. A hero of mine." -- Billy Connolly