A Clue to the Exit

Name: A Clue to the Exit
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Edward St Aubyn
ISBN: 9780099285786

Edward St Aubyn

06/09/2001
Vintage

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de A Clue to the Exit par Edward St Aubyn

Résumé

Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband and absent father, has been give six months to life. 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 writing fiction as she is to gambling. Charlie's novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As the train gets stuck at Didcot Junction and Charlie gets more passionately entangled with the with dangerous young woman who is his nemesis, Edward St Aubyn's dazzling novel comes to its startling climax.