Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he's finally caught a break when he's offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried "Ziggy" Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book.
But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running "business concerns"--which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting him--his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth.
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"A tour de force." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
"Enigmatic and mesmerizing." --The New Yorker "Flanagan writes with a searing truth. . . . First Person is studded with sharp, breath-catching observations about the finite nature of life." --Financial Times (London) "Deeply compelling. . .Flanagan writes with acute sensitivity." --The New York Times Book Review "At a time when our truth is daily contorted, debauched or ignored, we require Flanagan's artful reminder of the wreckage caused by our unwillingness to say what happened." --The Washington Post "A sinister fable of identity exchange." --The Seattle Times "Brilliant. . . . This sonorous, blackly comic novel offers searing insight into our times." --Booklist (starred review) "[Flanagan] touches on genuine brilliance." --The Australian "Scathingly funny . . . Also a profound and thought-provoking novel that explores the nature of truth, lies, and fiction." --The BooksellerRICHARD FLANAGAN's 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, for which he was awarded the 2014 Man Booker Prize, are published in 42 countries. He lives in Tasmania.
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