The Hippopotamus
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The Hippopotamus is a novel by Stephen Fry, first published in 1994.
The "hippo" (referred to as the "happy hippo") of the title is lecherous, drunken failed poet and critic Edward (Ted/Tedward) Lennox Wallace, who finds himself jobless from his job as a critic for a newspaper; on the suggestion of a sick goddaughter suffering from leukemia, he returns to the country house of old friend Lord Michael Logan and his wife Lady Anne to investigate the apparent healing powers of one of Logan's children, David (Ted's fellow godchild). His findings are interleaved with his thoughts on life, sex and art, events as viewed by various other participants. The life story of tycoon Michael Logan and his family, as well as, Ted's is intertwined to provide a colorful past. The highly comical story is run through with a stream of unusual sexual practices.
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