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A Clue to the Exit

A Clue to the Exit - Paperback

by Edward St Aubyn
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Availability:In StockContributor:Edward St AubynPublish date:2015-09-01Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador PaperISBN-13:9781250046031ISBN-10:1250046033UPC:9781250046031Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Satire, World LiteratureBook Topic:EnglandSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC7YR0K91S

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

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador PaperISBN-13:9781250046031ISBN-10:1250046033UPC:9781250046031Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Satire, World LiteratureBook Topic:EnglandSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC7YR0K91S
EDWARD ST. AUBYN was born in London in 1960. He is the author of Lost for Words, On the Edge and The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mothers Milk. His final Patrick Melrose novel is the standalone At Last. Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Publisher: Picador Paper

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