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A Fool's Alphabet

by Sebastian Faulks
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Length 9 hours 35 minutes
Language English
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Amidst the letters of the alphabet, a life reveals itself. Flashing backwards and forwards through time, we meet Pietro Russell. As a photographer in Sri Lanka, a schoolboy in Fulham and even before he was born to his wounded English father and young Italian mother. The extraordinary moments of Pietro's life are navigated with unique imagination, giving the reader a chance to view a life from a new and moving vantage point.

A Fool's Alphabet is a novel of true invention from a master storyteller that sees life in all of its compelling, poignant glory.

'Ambitious and beautifully crafted' THE TIMES
'Faulks writes with great emotional authority' SUNDAY TIMES

© Sebastian Faulks 1992 (P) Penguin Audio 2011

FictionFiction - Literary

Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.

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Author:

Narrator:
Jamie Glover

ISBN:
9781446454640

Length:
9 hours 35 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Random House

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Edition:
Unabridged

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Reviews

The best novelist of his generation A conventionally-told tale in an unconventional narrative form Faulks writes with great emotional authority... There are the same escapist pleasures, too: meals are described in rapt, mouthwatering detail, whitewashed villages and Mediterranean seascapes brought to such vivid life that you want to jump on the nearest aeroplane and see them for yourself Sebastian Faulks's third and most magnificent novel is a 'feel-good' experience from cover to cover Elevated by some delicate prose, particularly in evocation of childhood and adolescence, A Fool's Alphabet is a poignant and highly readable novel that runs the gamut of experience from well, from A to Z An ambitious and beautifully crafted novel Expand reviews
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