Mayday

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“Move over, Raymond Chandler and Nathaniel West - Jonathan Lynn´s hit L.A. At last - a thought-filled, mystery-laced, laugh-packed, cynical, satirical, knockout novel that takes on L.A.’s cluttered complex culture, the gratuitous embroidery of Amercian speech, the seismic idiocy of the movie business, feel-good religion, feel-bad psychoanalysis, academian nuts, single sex, and group, as well.”
- Larry Gelbart

“Jonathan Lynn, with his marvelous sense of the comic and his artist’s eye for detail, is our Thackeray, and with MAYDAY he has spun an unforgettable portrait of the exotic denizens of L.A. -- engrossing, scathingly funny, original.”
- Oliver Sacks

"It is several satirical novels for the price of one, all jostling and milling and spraying their targets with unrestrained vigor."
- The Times Literary Supplement.

"Very funny... will keep you turning the pages right to the surprising end."
- Eric Idle

“The funniest novel I have read in ages.”
- Sir John Mortimer