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You can order the book online from the following bookstores:
Amazon.co.uk (Europe): Paperback
Amazon.de (Deutschland): My Hero
Amazon.de (Deutschland): Mein Held (German translation)
First published 1996
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN, paperback: 1-85723-387-5
ISBN, hardback: 1-85723-365-4
314 pages (paperback).
My Hero - Sharp, sparkling and seriously funny
The back of the book says:
Writing novels? Piece of cake, surely ... or so Jane thinks.
Until hers start writing back.
At which point, she really should stop. Better still, change her name and flee the country.
The one thing she should not do is go into the book herself
After all, that's what heroes are for. Unfortunatly, the world of fiction is a far more complicated place than she ever imagined. And she's about to land her hero right in it.
King Lear extract from this book.
After reading the book I scribbled down this on the 12th of April 1997:
Jane, the famous fantasy-writer, starts to get funny dreams; an author appears
in her dreams and tells her that he has been trapped inside his own books for
36 years and need help to get out of there. Well, of course she feel
the urge to help out a fellow author...
And then it all starts, an amazing hunt through all kinds of famous books,
and it's bound to be many complications; Piglet getting taken as hostage, Dracula finds himself
being taken to hospital to get bloodinjections, Hamlet trying to get out of
character and find another role, and other hilarious incidents.
The tempo is very hectic and I had a hard time trying to put the book away,
and it occured to me that it was certainly a bad move to start to read this
book the week before an exam, well, the only thing to do was to finish the
book before the exam as well. Four and a half piglets out of five for this
great novel.
Quotes from this book can be found in the quote-files.
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This book has also been translated to German, and is called "Mein Held".
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