Engleby

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: VINTAGE
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: Reprint

Description: 342 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Sebastian Faulks new novel is a bolt from the blue: contemporary, demotic, angry, heart-wrenching, and funny, in the deepest shade of black.Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, he rises without trace in Thatcher&;s England and scorches through the blandscape of New Labour.In the course of his brief, incandescent career, he and the reader encounter many famous people &; actors, writers, politicians, household names &; but by far the most memorable is Engleby himself.Sebastian Faulks&;s new novel can be read as a lament for a generation and the country it failed. It is also a meditation on the limits of science, the curse of human consciousness and on the lyrics of 1970s&; rock music. And beneath this highly disturbing surface lies an unfolding mystery of gripping narrative power. For when one of Mike&;s contemporaries unaccountably disappears, the reader has to ask: is even the shameless Engleby capable of telling the whole truth Industry Reviews Like Human Traces, Engleby is distinguished by a remarkable intellectual energy: a narrative verve, technical mastery of the possibilities of the novel form and vivid sense of the tragic contingency of human life... The combination of serious purpose and playful execution is intensely exhilarating -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph *Beautifully done... A portrait of one mind out of joint with its times, and eventually defeated by them... Witty, poignant, Engleby is as cold as a Fenland wind, as clever as a Cambridge don * The Times *His most brilliant novel yet * Daily Telegraph *Brilliant * Observer *Engleby himself is the most vivid personality Faulks has yet devised... engagingly lucid and disarmingly funny... This novel is a significant departure for Faulks, and the new terrain suits him well * Guardian *

ISBN: 9780099458272