Tennyson Tympany
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If Preston Sturges and Anthony Trollope had collaborated on a breezy how-to manual for pickpocketing, forgery, house burglary, counterfeiting, and murdering a few of your closest relatives, it might have turned out a little like this light-fingered caper about all those things and more.
TENNYSON TYMPANY starts with death by falling brontosaurus and a fortune built on toothpaste-filled golf balls, and vaults from there to ever greater nonsense-taking for granted that, left to their own devices, unprotected young readers will naturally thrill to screwball mayhem and ten-dollar words and the triumph of the moderately wicked over the insufferably good.
Stuart Gelzer
Stuart Gelzer, the child of American missionaries, grew up in Cameroon and India. Over the years he's been a screenwriter, a film editor, a drama teacher, a film and photography teacher, and a singer specializing in folk music from the Republic of Georgia. Nowadays he does fine-art photography, writes fiction and travel memoir, and translates old French popular novels. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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