Engleby

Sebastian, Faulks

ISBN 10: 0091794501 / ISBN 13: 9780091794507

Published by Hutchinson, 2007

About this Item

Signed by the author. First edition, first impression. DJ in protective sleeve. Appears to have hardly been read.

Seller Inventory # FICT250914003

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engleby
• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091794501
• ISBN 13: 9780091794507
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 23 ounces
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Sebastian Faulks’s 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?

About the Author

Sebastian Faulks is the author of seven previous novels, including Birdsong (1993), The Girl at the Lion d’Or (1989), Charlotte Gray (1998), On Green Dolphin Street (2001) and Human Traces (2005). He is also the author of a biographical study, The Fatal Englishman (1996).