Famous Last Words

Famous Last Words
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Publisher : London : Faber, Faber
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 057120905X
ISBN-13 : 9780571209057
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Book Synopsis Famous Last Words by : Timothy Findley

Download or read book Famous Last Words written by Timothy Findley and published by London : Faber, Faber. This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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