A Liar's Autobiography
Language: English
Published by Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1981
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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Octavo. Gray green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket. Very light edge wear, else fine in a fine jacket.
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- Title
- A Liar's Autobiography
- Author
- Graham Chapman
- Publisher
- Routledge Kegan & Paul
- Publication year
- 1981
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0416009018
- ISBN 13
- 9780416009019
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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Review
There is a lot of sex, with both men and women, described in detail, which sometimes interrupts the flow of the narrative. After one vivid episode the narrator has to stop: "This description had made me feel so ... uh ... uhm... ah ... excuse me ..." But underneath the hedonism and the wackiness, the comic drawings and arch footnotes is a certain nihilism. "What are we?", he asks at one point. "We are tubes--hollow cylinders of flesh. What is our expectation from life? Regular fulfilment of primitive functions at both ends, coupled with the thought that we must leave at least something behind us, very much in the same way that a dog pisses against a tree." Perhaps there's some bleak vision like that behind the work of many great comedians. --Adam Roberts
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