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Ready to follow Nick Hornsby and Helen Fielding as the next big thing from CoolBritannia to hit America is Ben Elton. Already known to a wide publictelevision audience as the funnyman behind Blackadder The Young Ones andThe Thin Blue Line Elton author of Popcorn lights up the literary sky withBlast from the Past.Part noir thriller part hilarious sendup of the politics of extremism Blastfrom the Past is the new novel from English comedy phenomenon standupplaywright television writer and author Ben Eltona name soon to be knownin all circles once Joel Schumachers film of his book Popcorn reaches thesilver screen.In the early 80s when Polly was a seventeenyearold ideological peaceprotestor and Jack was a U.S. Army captain stationed at Englands GreenhamCommon the two had a secret and very unlikely affair. No two people could havehad more to argue about save that they couldnt live without each other yetone day Jack came to the conclusion that he loved soldiering more than Pollyand sacrificed their love to be a career army man.Now sixteen years later Polly is a lonely thirtysomething social servicesemployee and Jack is a fourstar general who has returned to Britain to findher his only true love. With only one night to resolve their differences anda knifewielding stalker lurking in the shadows for everyone concerned thiswill be a night like no other.From the Hardcover edition. «
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