Famous Last Words

Author: Timothy Findley

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  • : $20.00 NZD
  • : 9780333439135
  • : Macmillan
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  • : January 1987
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  • : Timothy Findley
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  • : Hardback
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Barcode 9780333439135
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Description

In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in a scandal and political corruption. Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul and it is Findley's fine achievement that he has combined these elements into a web that constantly surprises and astounds the reader.