Liar

About this book
"Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel is 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"--
Details
- First published
- 1991
- OL Work ID
- OL1933639W
Subjects
Truthfulness and falsehoodFictionMurderInvestigationSchool childrenFiction, humorousEngland, fictionFiction, humorous, generalYoung menEndowed public schools (Great Britain)FICTION / LiteraryFICTION / HumorousFICTION / Coming of AgeCrime, fiction