The Liar - Softcover

Fry, Stephen

3.65

13,094 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749336110 ISBN 13: 9780749336110

Publisher: Mandarin, 2098

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Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.

Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth.

The Liar is a thrilling, sophisticated and laugh out loud hilarious novel from a brilliantly talented writer.

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Review:

"A quite brilliant first novel" (Sunday Times)

"The Liar is hilarious - page after page of the most outrageous and often filthy jokes, delicious conceits, instant, brilliant ripostes that would only occur to ordinary mortals after days of teeth-grinding lunacy" (Literary Review)

"Brilliantly entertaining and consistently outrageous" (Daily Mail)

"Sublime" (Cosmopolitan)

From the Publisher:

Stephen Fry’s first novel is a humorous adventure in which a public schoolboy witnesses the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist and finds himself drawn into the ensuing investigation.

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