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First Person
Richard Flanagan
其他書名
A novel
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2018-04-03
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Satire
Fiction / Psychological
ISBN
0525520031
9780525520030
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wuosDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book.
But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running “business concerns”—which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting
him
—his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth.
By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling,
First Person
is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.