A Clue to the Exit

✍ Scribed by Aubyn, Edward St

• Book ID: 108876358
• Publisher: Picador
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 264 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250046031

✦ Synopsis

A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best

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Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel-about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling.
His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (familiar to readers of St. Aubyn's earlier work) who are locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As this train gets stuck at Didcot, and Charlie gets more passionately entangled with the dangerous Angelique, A Clue to the Exit comes to its startling climax. Exquisitely crafted, witty, and thoughtful, Edward St. Aubyn's dazzling novel probes the very heart of being.