Richard Flanagan

First Person

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Produktbeschreibung

FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR

Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks.

Kehlmann accepts but soon begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. Is he ghostwriting a memoir, or is Heidl rewriting him? As the deadline draws closer everything that is certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Ziggy Heidl - and who is Kif Kehlmann?

'Both comic and frightening... Studded with sharp, breath-catching observations about the finite nature of life' Financial Times

'Enigmatic and mesmerizing' New Yorker

'As unsettling as it is inspired' Esquire UK

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 247654, 734463
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781784707477
• ISBN-10: 1784707473
• Artikelnr.: 50897654

Autorenporträt

Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. His novels Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, Wanting and The Narrow Road to the Deep North have received numerous honours and are published in 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North in 2014.

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First Person is both comic and frightening. At times I caught a glimpse of Money-era Martin Amis in Flanagan's satirical asides on the Australian publishing industry... And there's a hint, too, of an epochal gloom that is redolent of the The Great Gatsby. Yet there are also passages touched with the virtuosity that shone so brightly in The Narrow Road that are pure Flanagan... Studded with sharp, breath-catching observations about the finite nature of life Carl Wilkinson Financial Times

First Person is both comic and frightening. At times I caught a glimpse of Money-era Martin Amis in Flanagan's satirical asides on the Australian publishing industry... And there's a hint, too, of an epochal gloom that is redolent of the The Great Gatsby. Yet there are also passages touched with the virtuosity that shone so brightly in The Narrow Road that are pure Flanagan... Studded with sharp, breath-catching observations about the finite nature of life Carl Wilkinson Financial Times