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Highlights
- A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live.
- About the Author: EDWARD ST. AUBYN was born in London in 1960.
- 208 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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Book Synopsis
A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best
Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel-about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling. His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (familiar to readers of St. Aubyn's earlier work) who are locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As this train gets stuck at Didcot, and Charlie gets more passionately entangled with the dangerous Angelique, A Clue to the Exit comes to its startling climax. Exquisitely crafted, witty, and thoughtful, Edward St. Aubyn's dazzling novel probes the very heart of being.Review Quotes
"St. Aubyn delivers memorable characters, dark humor, and sublime writing in this stand-alone effort." --Library Journal
"One of the great comic writers of our time." --The New York Times Review of Books "Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation." --Alan Hollinghurst "One of the preeminent writers of his generation." --Will Self "One of the great prose stylists in England" --Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones "St. Aubyn is utterly fearless." --Lev Grossman, TimeAbout the Author
EDWARD ST. AUBYN was born in London in 1960. He is the author of Lost for Words, On the Edge and The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mothers Milk. His final Patrick Melrose novel is the standalone At Last. Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Booker PrizeDimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .4 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 208
Publisher: Picador Paper
Format: Paperback
Author: Edward St Aubyn
Language: English
Street Date: September 1, 2015
TCIN: 80951103
UPC: 9781250046031
Item Number (DPCI): 247-64-2108
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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