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Famous Last Words

of Timothy Findley

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3.99 (1653 reviews)
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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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Fiction Fiction Historical Fiction Canada Literature War Historical Canadian Literature Literary Fiction World War II Classics

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 416 pages
  • Publisher Faber Faber
  • Publication Date August 20th 2001
  • First Publication 10/30/81
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780571209057
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Fiction
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