Famous Last Words
- ISBN-10
- 057120905X
- ISBN-13
- 9780571209057
- Series
- Famous Last Words
- Category
- Prisoners of war
- Pages
- 396
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- London : Faber, Faber
- Author
- Timothy Findley
Description
In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in a scandal and political corruption.Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul and it is Findley's fine achievement that he has combined these elements into a web that constantly surprises and astounds the reader.
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