Ned Beauman. (2018). Madness Is Better Than Defeat: A novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Ned Beauman. 2018. Madness Is Better Than Defeat: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Ned Beauman, Madness Is Better Than Defeat: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2018.

Ned Beauman. Madness Is Better Than Defeat: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2018.

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In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues. Twenty years later, a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit the temple for his own ends, unaware that it is a locus of conspiracies far grander than anyone could ever have guessed.
Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beauman’s riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.

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     Starred review from November 13, 2017
     In this rowdy, thoroughly satisfying literary adventure, Beauman (Glow) takes readers deep into the jungle of Honduras. An eclectic Hollywood film crew sets out to film on location at a mysterious Mayan temple, but they arrive to find that another group of Americans got there the day before and is disassembling the temple in order to take it back as a trophy for their wealthy benefactor. There is a standoff between the two groups: the days turn into weeks and the weeks into years. After 18 years, the two factions have turned into minisocieties acting out a sort of proxy war on behalf of their two backers. The extensive cast includes a relentless newspaper gossip columnist on one side and a burgeoning ethnologist on the other. Somehow, the film crew uses the silver they find to manufacture film stock from scratch and produce millions of feet of footage that ultimately end up in a secret government archive. Yet, the mystery that eludes both camps—and the reason secret agents are circling the situation—is what’s inside the temple itself. Exquisitely comic and absurd, Beauman’s imaginative novel brims with the snappy dialogue, vivid scenery, and converging story lines of an old Hollywood classic; it also says something essential about the nature of film and memory. Agent: David Forrer, Inkwell Management.

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   • content: Chaos reigns in Ned Beauman's absurdist comedy, and narrator Eric Meyers delivers an upbeat, nuanced narration--even with his tongue planted firmly in cheek. CIA agent Zonulet narrates his history of the dastardly doings of the agency. In 1938, two rival groups carry out expeditions to the ruins of an ancient temple in the Honduran jungle. One group will use the temple as a movie location for HEARTS IN DARKNESS, a film sounding suspiciously like a comic version of Conrad's classic. The second group's goal is to break down the temple, move it, and reconstruct it in New York City. But why? Eventually, the groups' mutual hostility grows into a warlike state. Meyers adds zing to the clever dialogue and turns Beauman's outrageous situations into giggles and belly laughs. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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