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One Hand Clapping|Burgess, Anthony

One Hand Clapping

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Overview

Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world.

 

Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune.

 

Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening.

 

But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop.

 

And what he sees as the logical conclusion to his success isn't something Janet can agree to.

 

"Wearing its influences on its sleeve, One Hand Clapping is an enjoyable if bitter-sweet portrait of the struggling sanctity of lifetime togetherness amidst the darker side of convenience culture. Daringly surreal and innovatively executed."—WhatsOnStage

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798899744839
  • Publisher: Recorded Books
  • Publish Date: Mar 2026
  • Author: Anthony Burgess
  • Narrator: Becky Bowe
  • Duration: 06:36:04

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