Stephen Fry
Paperback | Pages: 390 pages Rating: 3.67 | 11437 Users | 675 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Liar |
| Author | : | Stephen Fry |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 390 pages |
| Published | : | August 5th 2004 by Arrow (first published September 16th 1991) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Contemporary |
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Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. 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. The Liar is a thrilling, sophisticated and laugh out loud hilarious novel from a brilliantly talented writer.Define Books To The Liar
| Original Title: | The Liar |
| ISBN: | 0099457059 (ISBN13: 9780099457053) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Adrian Healey, Donald Trefusis, David Pearce |
| Setting: | Cambridge University, England |
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English boarding schools have much to recommend them. If boys are going to be adolescent, and science has failed to come up with a way of stopping them, then much better to herd them together and let them get on with it in privateIf you combined Douglas Adams with Jean Genet and asked this new man to rewrite Rudyard Kiplings Kim, the writer would write very much like Stephen Fry and the book would look a lot like The Liar. It would all be too too and so very very.he had read and absorbed moreAfter reading the unabridged version, I've decided this is one of my favorite books.Fry stylistically jumps around in his narrative in order to add the feel of disunion with reality. Adrian, Fry's out-of-touch, flamboyant, attention-seeking miscreant of a protagonist, is one of the most wonderfully amiable and relate-able characters in modern literature, because we don't like to think he is. In one way or another, we're all like Adrian. Estranged, lonely people who just want to be /liked/. Who
Took a while to get into but very funny!
Very interesting and funny book. Love it.
Stephen Fry is a wit and raconteur if ever there was one. His first novel "The Liar" is an interesting, erudite, comic, and witty semi thriller all in one package. The protagonist of this novel, one Adrian Healey, is always lying to and fooling others. In no great irony the person he is lying to the most is himself. Almost every reader will see some of their own foibles in him at some point in the text, which can make for some uncomfortable reading moments. Adrian is both nasty and kind, and I
Stephen Fry ranks among my favourite persons on earth. There's something about his terribly English combination of wit, erudition and a dirty mind that never fails to delight me, and it shines brightly in The Liar, the first of the four novels he has published so far. An irreverent and intelligent take on such British institutions as the public-school novel, the Cambridge novel and the spy novel, it is best appreciated by people who have an affinity for such things, but really, anyone with a
I find it fitting that I started my reading challenge with Mr. Fry and am closing it out with one of his books. For a debut novel this is remarkable but then again so is the man that wrote it. It is every bit as witty and charming as the man himself. Which to me reinforces the veiled autobiographical nature of it.If you want a fun romp with a thriller basis this book is for you at least until it switches genres. Unfortunately it tries to be too many other genres at the same time but one thing it
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