AGAINST ENTROPY

by Michael Fraya ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 22, 1967

The implications of the theory of entropy are held to be, by some, that the general trend of the universe is towards death and disorder. This drastic prediction is humorously applied here to the goings-on in a London newspaper office where the effort at avoiding real work is exceeded only by the characters' maintenance of their various eccentricities. There is the Editor whom no one ever sees and whose attempts to fire a subordinate by memorandum are ignored as being a staff joke; John Dyson, who is trying to make a sideline career on TV as a race relations expert based on his proximity to a West Indian neighbor; his assistant, Bob Bell whose inert approach to life has bound his future to a pliable girl from a provincial finishing school; and , master of the upmanship game, Erskine Morris, a trainee reporter who churns with money-making ideas behind an impassive facade. Not surprisingly, Morris is the only one who shows a profit by the end of this deftly written and generally (apart from one rather tiresome episode involving Dyson's aborted trip to the Middle East) funny novel.

Pub Date: May 22, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION