SummaryIn this brilliantly witty satire -- a bestseller in the UK -
- a prestigious British museum launches an ambitious new
exhibit...which quickly becomes a seasonal nightmare. Think that a day in the life of a London museum director is
cold, quiet, and austere? Think again. Giles Waterfield
brings a combination of intellectual comedy and knockabout
farce to the subject in this story of one long day in a
museum full of scandals, screw-ups¨and more than a few
scalawags. At the beginning of The Hound in the Left-hand Corner,
Auberon, the brilliant but troubled director of the Museum
of British History, is preparing one midsummer's day for
the opening of the most spectacular exhibition his museum
has ever staged. The centerpiece is a painting of the
intriguing Lady St. John strikingly attired as Puck, which
hasn't been shown in London in a hundred years. As the day
passes, the portrait arouses disquieting questions,
jealousies, rivalries -- and more than a few strange
affections -- in the minds of the museum staff. As guests
and employees pour in, the tension rises -- and Auberon
himself has the hilariously ridiculous task of keeping the
peace, without losing his own sense of reality as well. For everyone who loves the farce of David Lodge and Michael
Frayn, or even the Antiques Roadshow, the fast-paced,
hilarious satire of The Hound in the Left-hand Corner is
sure to delight and entertain.
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