The tyrant's novel
By: Thomas Keneally
Edition: 1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780385511469
Subjects: Despotism; Detention of persons; Authorship; Political fiction; Political prisoners; Novelists; Fiction
Description: Biding his time in a detention camp for exiles, Alan Sheriff describes his life before he was hired by his government to ghostwrite the autobiography of the nation's brutal leader, an assignment that turns him into a prisoner.
Notes: Originally published: Australia: Random House, 2004.
Table of contents: title: The visitor's preface; title: Alan Sheriff's story; title: After-tale.