Engleby (Vintage International)

by Sebastian Faulks

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Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think.

A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, he rises without trace in Thatcher's England and scorches through the blandscape of New Labour.

In the course of his brief, incandescent career, he and the reader encounter many famous people - actors, writers, politicians, household names - but by far the most memorable is Engleby himself.

This work is a lament for a generation and the country it failed. It is also a meditation on the limits of science, the curse of human consciousness and...Read more
  • ISBN10 0385524056
  • ISBN13 9780385524056
  • Publish Date 31 December 2007 (first published 3 May 2007)
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Doubleday Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 319
  • Language English