The Liar [NOOK Book]

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Overview

An irresistible novel by multi-talented Stephen Fry, author, film and television star, playwright and newspaper columnist.

"The spirits of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh glower benignly over this very funny first novel . . . An ingenious plot filled with surprises and glittering with hilarious, often indecent inventions."—The New York Times Book Review

"Transforms the sophomoric into the sophisticated."—Los Angeles Times


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Overview

An irresistible novel by multi-talented Stephen Fry, author, film and television star, playwright and newspaper columnist.

"The spirits of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh glower benignly over this very funny first novel . . . An ingenious plot filled with surprises and glittering with hilarious, often indecent inventions."—The New York Times Book Review

"Transforms the sophomoric into the sophisticated."—Los Angeles Times


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
The British actor's very funny first novel traces the antics of a reckless, irreverent ex-Cambridge student involved in a bizarre espionage caper. (June)
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From The Critics
British comedian and actor Fry (currently appearing in Kenneth Branagh's Peter's Friends ) has written a witty first novel about the adventures of Adrian Healey, a British schoolboy and ``the liar'' of the title. Adrian is an amusing, if appalling, character, and readers will enjoy following him as he develops from a lovesick teenager wih a ``pash'' on fellow student Hugo Cartwright to a Cambridge undergraduate involved in international espionage. There are interludes along the way involving, among other things, sex, suicide, Piccadilly rent-boys, and a ``lost'' pornographic novel by Charles Dickens. This is a clever and entertaining novel that will appeal to Anglophiles with a twisted sense of humor. Recommended for public libraries.-- Elizabeth Mellett, Brookline P.L., Mass.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781569478097
  • Publisher: Soho Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 7/1/2003
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 280
  • Sales rank: 124,020
  • File size: 670 KB
  • Items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 24, 2003

    A great fan of Stephen Fry - the comic actor

    This book is very well written. The book is admittedly difficult to follow in the beginning, as their are two separate story lines w/o much prelude or introduction. However, the payoff at the end is worth it. Fry's elegant and easy-to-read prose is more than sufficient to keep you turning page after page. The ending was fantastic, not because of what happens, but because of the feeling you are left with... not to mention the epiphany that hits you at the very end... the very realization that you, the reader, have also been strung along. Definitely worth a read. Having read this book, I intend to read his other novels.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 9, 2000

    SIMPLY TOO GOOD!

    Can a mere mortal have written this book? Mr. Fry's masterpiece is hilarious, insightful, often shocking.... The first-time read is a growing experience and truly enjoyable, but so are the subsequent million revisits. 'The Liar' is the single flawless novel I have ever read.

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