Publication

2000 - Chatto & Windus, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

49,000 words, Guess

Page Count

196 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivecluetoexit0000stau
  • ISBN-100701169605
  • ISBN-139780701169602
  • LibraryThing419414
  • Library of Congress Control Number00343375
and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6069.T134 C58 2000
  • LCCPR6069.T134C58 2000

Description

Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel--about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling. His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (familiar to readers of St. Aubyn's earlier work) who are locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As this train gets stuck at Didcor, and Charlie gets more passionately entangled with the dangerous Angelique, " A clue to the Exit" comes to its startling climax. Exquisitely crafted, witty, and thoughtful, Edward St. Aubyn's dazzling novel probes the very heart of being.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

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  • A clue to the exitChatto & Windus2000-01-01

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