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This is a brilliant book: disturbing, amusing, thought-provoking, playful, real, unreal. All the usual Faulks intelligence and enjoyment of language is here.
Yet Engleby is different from his other books. This time, you get the feeling Faulks has let you into his own life: school, university, Notting Hill, journalism (the interviews with Jeffrey Archer and Ken Livingstone just can’t have been made up).
There is a catharsis here – and, despite the disturbances in Mike Engleby’s brain, you can feel Faulks really enjoying his writing, making this book perhaps more approachable than some of his other subjects.
It is an absolute travesty that Sebastian Faulks has never won a major British Book Award, especially as Birdsong is generally recognised as one of the greatest novels in contemporary fiction. Hopefully, Mike Engleby will do it for him (he doesn’t do much for anyone else).
Time is one of the themes running through Engleby. Make sure you take time to read it.
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Engleby Synopsis
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Vivid . . . engagingly lucid and disarmingly funny' GUARDIAN
'Beautifully done . . . witty and poignant' THE TIMES
'Brilliant' OBSERVER
Welcome to Mike Engleby's world. Deep in the hallowed halls of an esteemed English university, Mike is one of the only working-class boys, amongst the privileged masses. He's also different, starkly so, but able to observe it all. But observation soon tips into obsession when his fixation, fellow student Jennifer, goes missing. What has Mike Engleby overlooked?
A cult classic and an exemplar of the campus novel, Engleby is a beguiling portrait of an outsider, told in an unforgettable voice.
'Remarkable . . . intensely exhilarating' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'A tour-de-force . . . a great novel' DAILY MAIL
'Compelling, disturbing and significant' SCOTSMAN
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781804944387 |
| Publication date: |
7th September 2023 |
| Author: |
Sebastian Faulks |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books an imprint of Cornerstone |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
368 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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About Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996); a small book of literary parodies, Pistache (2006); and the novels Human Traces (2005) and Engleby (2007). He lives in London with his wife and their three children. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993 and appointed CBE for services to literature in 2002. He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
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