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Book Description:
Sparky Valentine makes his way from planet to planet as part of a motley theater troupe--the perfect guise for an interstellar con man wanted for murder.
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- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Science Fiction & Fantasy >> Authors, A-Z >> ( V ) >> Varley, John
- Science Fiction & Fantasy >> Science Fiction >> General
Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover
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Bowden P. (The Golden Globe is my favorite novel by John Varley. Its part of his Eight Worlds setting and revolves around the adventures of one Sparky Valentine, one time child star, actor, con man and thief. If you ever wondered how actors earned such a bad reputation, well, Sparky will educate you on that!
There is humor, adventure, exposition and flashbacks, lots of flashbacks. I won't go into too much detail for fear of spoiling it, but they help explain how Sparky wound up playing Shakespeare in the Kuiper Belt and wound up on the wrong side of the Charonese mafia.
Sue K. (I just could not get into this book. A first for me since I really like Varley but he just skipped around to much or something.
Leticia F. from NORTHRIDGE, CA wrote on 9/15/2005...An adventure-packet cross Solar-System journey.