First Person: A novel

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Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book. But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running “business concerns”—which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting him—his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth. By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.

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  First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game

  • 2004
  • 331 pages
  • Paperback
  • MIT Press
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  First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir...

  • 2000-05-05
  • 208 pages
  • Ebook
  • PublicAffairs
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  First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-portrait by Russia's President

  • 2000
  • 219 pages
  • Paperback
  • Hutchinson
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  First Person: Tales of Management Courage and Tenacity

  • 1996
  • 296 pages
  • Paperback
  • Harvard Business Press

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