Richard Flanagan

First Person

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 is 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?

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

Rezensionen

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