The liar
By: Stephen Fry
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781616954666; 9781569478097
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Young men; Fiction; Endowed public schools (Great Britain); Murder; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Humorous; FICTION / Coming of Age
Description: "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"--