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First Person

A novel

A novel

By Richard Flanagan

By Richard Flanagan

By Richard Flanagan

By Richard Flanagan

By Richard Flanagan
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By Richard Flanagan
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Mar 05, 2019 | ISBN 9780525435778

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Apr 03, 2018 | ISBN 9780525520030

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    About First Person

    Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book.
     
    But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running “business concerns”—which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting him—his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth.
     
    By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.

    About First Person

    Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book.
     
    But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running “business concerns”—which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting him—his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth.
     
    By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.

    About First Person

    Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book.
     
    But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running “business concerns”—which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting him—his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth.
     
    By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.

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    About Richard Flanagan

    RICHARD FLANAGAN’s seven novels have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.

    About Richard Flanagan

    RICHARD FLANAGAN’s seven novels have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.

    About Richard Flanagan

    RICHARD FLANAGAN’s seven novels have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 05, 2019 | 416 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780525435778

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 03, 2018 | 368 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780525520030

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Apr 03, 2018 | 688 Minutes | ISBN 9780525588962
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    Praise

    “A tour de force.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books

    “Enigmatic and mesmerizing.” —The New Yorker

    “Flanagan writes with a searing truth. . . . First Person is studded with sharp, breath-catching observations about the finite nature of life.” —Financial Times (London)

    “Deeply compelling. . .Flanagan writes with acute sensitivity.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “At a time when our truth is daily contorted, debauched or ignored, we require Flanagan’s artful reminder of the wreckage caused by our unwillingness to say what happened.” —The Washington Post
     
    “A sinister fable of identity exchange.” —The Seattle Times

    “Brilliant. . . . This sonorous, blackly comic novel offers searing insight into our times.” —Booklist (starred review)
     
    “[Flanagan] touches on genuine brilliance.” —The Australian
     
    “Scathingly funny . . . Also a profound and thought-provoking novel that explores the nature of truth, lies, and fiction.” —The Bookseller

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