The Liar

Author: Fry, Stephen

Brand: Penguin

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 400

Release Date: 28-09-2004

Part Number: 3265262

Details: Product Description
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. Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. 'Hilarious' Literary Review 'Sublime' Cosmopolitan
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 Inside Flap
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. Unprepared or not, Adrian is led through an adventure that takes in toast, Piccadilly rent-boys, Charles Dickens's lost pornographic novel, an international espionage conspiracy, disgraceful scenes on the cricket field and a machine that compels its victims to tell the truth.
About the Author
Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie in
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which he co-wrote with Laurie) and
Jeeves and Wooster, and was unforgettable as General Melchett in
Blackadder. He has hosted over 180 episodes of QI, and has narrated all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the audiobook recordings. He is the bestselling author of four novels -
The Stars' Tennis Balls,
Making History,
The Hippopotamus and
The Liar - as well as three volumes of autobiography -
Moab is My Washpot,
The Fry Chronicles and
More Fool Me.
Mythos and
Heroes, his retelling of the Greek myths, are both
Sunday Times bestsellers.

EAN: 9780099457053

Package Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches

Languages: English