Engleby Tapa blanda - 2007

Paperback. Very Good.

Hutchinson, 2007. Paperback. Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Hutchinson. Very Good. 6.02 x 1.02 x 9.17 inches. Paperback. 2007. 342 pages.<br>Bestselling British author Sebastian Faulks reinven ts the unreliable narrator with his singular, haunting creation-M ike Engleby. My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university. With that brief introduction we meet one of the most mesmerizing, singular voices in a long tradition of ... .

Hutchinson, Australia, 2007. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education.Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career, which brings us up to the present day, the reader has to ask: is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth?Engleby can be read as a lament for a generation and the country it failed. It is also a poignant account of the frailty of human consciousness.Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching - and funny, in the deepest shade of black.Engleby can be read as a lament for a generation and the country it… Leer más

Hutchinson, London, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 342 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Edges slightly foxed. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. "My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university."With that brief introduction we meet one of the most mesmerizing, singular voices in a long tradition of disturbing narrators. Despite his obvious intelligence and compelling voice, it is clear that something about solitary, odd Mike is not quite right. When he becomes fixated on a classmate named Jennifer Arkland and she goes missing, we are left with the looming Is… Leer más

Hutchinson, 2007. First. . Soft cover. Near Fine. pp.342 clean tight copy with slight corner wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Hutchinson 2007 Paperback. Good.