num_pages: 280
description: An irresistible novel by multi-talented Stephen Fry, author, film and television star, playwright and newspaper columnist. "The spirits of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh glower benignly over this very funny first novel . . . An ingenious plot filled with surprises and glittering with hilarious, often indecent inventions."â€”The New York Times Book Review  "Transforms the sophomoric into the sophisticated."â€”Los Angeles Times 
language: English
title: The Liar
titlecomplete: The Liar
characters: David Pearce, Donald Trefusis, Adrian Healey
genres: Fiction, British Literature, LGBT, Comedy, Queer, Humor, Novels, Contemporary, Modern, Audiobook
ratings_count: 12895
places: Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Cambridge, England, England, Salzburg, Austria, Cambridgeshire, England
publisher: Soho Press