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The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, fame, and the idea - the dying idea - of The Great Man.
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The Death of Eli Gold Synopsis
The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London. And also, secretly, his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother, who has never got over his sister's death in a suicide pact with Eli, a suicide pact that he, Eli, survived. The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, fame, and the idea - the dying idea - of The Great Man.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780007270842 |
| Publication date: |
7th June 2012 |
| Author: |
David Baddiel |
| Publisher: |
Fourth Estate Ltd an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
418 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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David Baddiel Press Reviews
Praise for The Secret Purposes: 'Page-turning, cleverly constructed ! an entertaining book
GUARDIAN
'A satisfying, brave novel'
OBSERVER
'An intriguing novel about history and truth ! The intelligence and inquiry of this book will surprise many'
THE TIMES
'Wonderful ! brilliantly realised'
INDEPENDENT
'It is a sombre, clever book, but, being Baddiel, is irradiated by flashes of dark humour'
Sally Vickers, SPECTATOR
About David Baddiel
David Baddiel was born in 1964 in Troy, New York, but grew up and lives in London. An accomplished comedian, author, screenwriter and television presenter, David Baddiel returned to stand-up comedy in 2013 with his critically acclaimed show, Fame: Not The Musical.
In June 2016 David Baddiel’s first children’s novel, The Parent Agency won the LOLLIE award for ‘best laugh out loud book for 9-13 year olds’ and is currently developed into a feature film by Fox 2000, written and produced by David himself, alongside Academy Award and BAFTA winning producer Ruth Kenley-Letts.
David subsequently published further children’s novels with The Person Controller, AniMalcolm, Birthday Boy and Head Kid, and has previously written four critically-acclaimed adult novels; The Death of Eli Gold, Time For Bed, Whatever Love Means and The Secret Purposes. In 2021 David published his polemic Jews Don't Count to rapturous applause.
The LoveReading LitFest invited David Baddiel to the festival to talk about Jews Don't Count.
You can view the event by subscribing to the LitFest programme for as little as £6 per month - or you can pay per view. For just £2, go, see David in conversation with Julia Wheeler and find out why everyone should read this book.
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