How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits

by Duncan Fallowell

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Winner of the 2012 PEN Ackerley Prize

Duncan Fallowell sets out to odd corners of the world in pursuit of some extraordinary and improbable characters who were in most cases momentarily famous-or infamous-and then simply disappeared. The first to disappear is the author himself-to a ghostly hotel on a Mediterranean island. His subjects, though unmet or hardly met, live for the reader with remarkable vividness, such as the German artist who bought a large island in the Hebrides and vanished immediately afterward, to the astonishment of its inhabitants. Fallowell tracks down the recluse who inspired Evelyn Waugh's creation...Read more
  • ISBN10 0956795234
  • ISBN13 9780956795236
  • Publish Date 7 September 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Ditto Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 244
  • Language English