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Picador
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
206 pages
ISBN: 1250046033
EAN: 9781250046031
Kindle: B00QEJ3V52
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Fiction
A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn
at his sparkling best 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 Didcot, 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.
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