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Liar

Liar

by Stephen Fry

1991Truthfulness and falsehoodFictionMurderInvestigationSchool children
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

"Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel is by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth. The Liar is a thrilling, sophisticated and laugh-out-loud hilarious novel from a brilliantly talented writer"--

Themes & subjects

Truthfulness and falsehoodFictionMurderInvestigationSchool childrenFiction, humorous
First published 1991

Setting

England

About the author

Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry

24 August 1957

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is a British actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director. He first came to attention in the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation, "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of the quiz show, QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him t…

Author

Stephen Fry

First published

1991

Pages

368

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

22

Languages

English, German, Russian

Publisher

Mandarin

ISBN

9783453092877

Where to buy

TR
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