A Lonely Man

Chris Power

£8.99

A twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is about the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth.

Paperback

Fiction

ISBN: 9780571341221

Description

When two men meet in a bookshop in Berlin they begin an uneasy friendship.

Patrick has a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch recently found hanged, he says the people who killed his boss are now following him…

As the two men’s association hurtles towards tragedy, Robert is forced to confront whether actual events are the only things that give a story life, and if some stories are too dangerous to tell.

A remarkable debut; an accomplished and intricately plotted story’ – Jon McGregor

A Lonely Man is a delicate snare of a novel’ – Brandon Taylor

A thrilling, unnerving novel. a page-turner with exacting syntax and emotional heft’ – Catherine Lacey

A classy page-turner’ – Mail on Sunday

A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller’ – Sunday Times

 

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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm