Mr. Toppit by Charles Elton is about the fallout of being the inspiration for a famous fictional character. Loosely based on the life of Christopher Milne and his fictional counterpart in the Winnie the Pooh books, this book follows the life and times of Luke Hayman after the death of his author father and the ways in which he can't escape being compared to his father's creation, Luke Hayseed%(30). · Charles Elton’s first novel, “Mr. Toppit,” begins and ends with Luke Hayman, son of Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful British screenwriter who has written an outlandishly popular series of Author: Jincy Willett. Spanning several decades, from the heyday of the postwar British film industry to today’s cutthroat world of show business in Los Angeles, Mr. Toppit is a riveting debut novel that captures an extraordinary family and their tragic brush with fame to wonderfully funny and painful effect.
Mr. Toppit Charles Elton. Charles Elton worked as a designer and editor in publishing before becoming a literary agent. Since he has worked in television and for the past ten years has been the executive producer in drama at ITV. Among his productions are the Oscar-nominated short Syrup, The Railway Children, Andrew Davies's adaptation. Mr. Toppit by Charles Elton. When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children's book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying moments are spent with a passing American tourist, Laurie Clow, who is fated to bring posthumous fame to his obscure series, The Hayseed Chronicles, and the enigmatic and sinister Mr. Toppit who is at the center of the books. Charles Elton's first novel, "Mr. Toppit," begins and ends with Luke Hayman, son of Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful British screenwriter who has written an outlandishly popular series of.
Elton tries hard to introduce parallels between the two sections -- absent fathers, distracted mothers, dominating older women -- but the result is only to confuse. I think one is also meant to intuit, behind it all, the enigmatic Mr. Toppit, a mysterious, powerful, force wielding bad as well as good. “Mr. Toppit is a darkly comic, thoroughly engaging narrative about a successful writer and the complicated legacy he leaves to his wife and children, and to the world at large. Charles Elton's witty and unsettling debut novel explores the emotional turmoil that results when a family's private history gets transformed into public myth.” —Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher. Spanning several decades, from the heyday of the postwar British film industry to today’s cutthroat world of show business in Los Angeles, Mr. Toppit is a riveting debut novel that captures an extraordinary family and their tragic brush with fame to wonderfully funny and painful effect.
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