A Clue to the Exit
'St Aubyn's attention to detail and comic dialogue make this a must-read' The TimesCharlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband and absent father, has been given six months to live. As he heads for the south of France, 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 consciousness. In the casino, he meets his muse.Ricocheting helplessly from writing to passion to isolation in the desert, Charlie attempts to achieve some measure of understanding before he dies. And as his remaining days diminish along with his stash of gambling chips, his search for…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-5355-6
- EAN: 9781447253556
- Produktnummer: 17597525
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H13.1 cm x B19.7 cm x D1.3 cm 132 g
- Gewicht: 132
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is also the author of On the Edge, which was shortlisted for the 1998 Guardian Fiction Award; the highly acclaimed trilogy Some Hope, reissued by Picador in 2006; and of Mother's Milk, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and won the South Bank Literature Award.
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