Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6491 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Paul Pickering, Daily Express
As compulsive as Pringles...I was astonished by this book. It has that strange, casual energy of an unpredicted bestseller.

Synopsis
Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and smokes and talks his kind of language. Bit by bit, things begin to change...Ed doesn't always take Geoff's advice. Or, when he does he lapses at the crucial moment. His path to understanding is not a straight one, especially as life keeps throwing more and more 'stuff' at him. Often he fails - like most of us, in fact. But sometimes he manages to get it right. And when he does, surprising things begin to happen ...In The Buddha, Geoff and Me Edward Canfor-Dumas brings all his skills to bear in an absorbing story of everyday city life, where the characters stand out with all their human strengths and weaknesses, and the ending brings Ed - and perhaps all of us? - a hope we didn't necessarily expect. The Buddha, Geoff and Me - for anyone who's ever begun to wonder what the whole damn thing is all about .

From the Publisher
A fabulous novel about life, and an unusually enlightening friendship

Customer Reviews

Brilliant!
This is a fantasic read - insightful, inspiring and non-evangelical. It's message stays with you a long long time.....

wonderful!
I adored this book and could not stop reading it.
The buddha is within each of us, even the most unexpected person can give some "enlightenment" to someone else, no matter the job they have and their past....

A superb piece of work and a wonderfully important book
I am simply overwhelmed by this book. I have done no work this week - I'm self-employed - because I couldn't stop reading it. It has a warm heart, it's intellectually challenging... and I'm disappointed that other reviewers go out of their way to say what this book doesn't (in their opinion) do very well. To say the plot's not great is bonkers: it's the perfect plot for this book. You might as well complain that you can't fill it with petrol and drive off in it.