description: Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul. 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.
language: English
title: Famous Last Words
titlecomplete: Famous Last Words
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Canadian Literature, Canada, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1789
publisher: Irwin Pub