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First Person

By: Richard Flanagan
Narrated by: David James
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The audiobook edition of
First Person by Richard Flanagan, read by David James.

Six weeks to write for your life... In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect

Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks.

Kehlmann accepts but soon begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. Is he ghostwriting a memoir, or is Heidl is rewriting him? As the deadline draws closer everything that is certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Ziggy Heidl - and who is Kif Kehlmann?

©2017 Richard Flanagan (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction Crime

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writers writing about writing is a dull topic indeed, and I thought this would be a character study but its not, it is just self indulgent navel gazing. and the narrator sounds so bored he can hardly keep awake so how can they expect the reader to ?
returned for money back and Id warn everyone to avoid this book like the plague (unless you suffer from insomnia)
how on earth these books win manbooker I will never know.

boring narrator, turgid story urgh

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