Mr Rinyo-Clacton'S Offer Av Russell Hoban

<p><b>''Russell Hoban''s imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound'' </b><i><b>The Times</b><br></i><br><i>''You want to buy my death for a million pounds!''</i> Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong?<br><br>''A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender'' Philip Hensher, <i>Mail on Sunday<br></i><br>''Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer'' <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i></p>