{"product_id":"the-executor-by-blake-morrison","title":"The Executor by Blake Morrison","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eBlake Morrison’s fourth novel is a literary detective story exploring the “competing claims of publication and privacy”, said David Grylls in The Sunday Times. Over a boozy lunch, newspaper books editor Matt Holmes agrees to become literary executor for his old friend Rob Pope, a “once-prominent poet now on the slide”. When, shortly afterwards, Rob unexpectedly dies, Matt finds among his papers a “cache of seemingly confessional poems dealing with adultery, violent sex and more”. Should he go ahead and publish, or follow the wishes of Rob’s widow, and suppress the poems?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eDespite its rather niche-sounding subject,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Executor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eproves “hugely enjoyable”, said Malcolm Forbes in the Literary Review. As well as being a skilled satirist, Morrison asks “rigorous” questions about the relationship between posterity and censorship. Yet “for all the many pleasures it offers”, this novel lacks a clear focus, said James Walton in The Times. Themes are picked up, only to be discarded, and it ends up such a “jumble of unfused elements” that it’s hard to say what the point really is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62375054836082,"sku":"xmn1789780406569","price":15.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/4015\/2434\/files\/the-executor-by-blake-morrison_1.jpg?v=1789780410","url":"https:\/\/ballgownwear.shop\/products\/the-executor-by-blake-morrison","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}