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Piccirilli, Tom
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Fiction
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Random House, Inc.
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English
β 185 KB
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The last word a novel
β Scribed by Hanif Kureishi
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition March 2015
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 147677921X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Hanif Kureishi's best novel since The Buddha of Suburbia " (The Independent , UK): a mischievous, wickedly funny, and intellectually deft story about a young biographer and the famous and reclusive novelist who is his subject.
Mamoon Azam is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England--but now, in his early seventies, his reputation is fading, his book sales are nonexistent, and the expensive habits of his flamboyant second wife are bleeding him dry. In a final attempt to revitalize his career, Mamoon's publisher commissions Harry, an ambitious young writer, to produce a provocative biography to bring Mamoon back into the public eye.
Harry sets off for Mamoon's estate, where he finds not the literary hero he had imagined, but a vain, bigoted, cynical, and cruelly manipulative genius, who quickly turns the tables on his ambitious young biographer. Harry must insinuate, seduce, and finesse the truth out of...
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