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Title
Famous last words

Author
Timothy Findley

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Faber & Faber

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20010820

Description

In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in a scandal and political corruption.

Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul and it is Findley's fine achievement that he has combined these elements into a web that constantly surprises and astounds the reader.

Timothy Findley was born in Toronto in 1930.
His first career was in the theatre; he was a charter company member of Ontario's Stratford Shakespearean Festival in 1953, and toured several European capitals.$$$In 1963, Findley turned to writing full-time and in 1977 his third novel, The Wars, won a Governor General's Award.
It is now considered a Canadian classic.
Following his bestsellers such as Famous Last Words, he won an Edgar Award for The Telling of Lies, while his collection of short stories, Stones, won Ontario's Trillium Award.$$$Findley's first work of non-fiction, Inside Memory:
Pages from a Writer's Workbook, made him the first two-time winner of a Canadian Authors Association Award; he had earlier won its fiction counterpart for his novel, Not Wanted on the Voyage.
He has also written plays, and his third, The Stillborn Lover (1993), won the CAA Drama Award, as well as winning an Arthur Ellis Award and Chalmers Award.
His later novels include Headhunter (1993) and The Piano Man's Daughter (1995).
His most recent play, Elizabeth Rex, was produced at the 2000 Stratford Festival in Canada.$$$Along with the likes of Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley has become one of Canada's most acclaimed and best-selling authors.
In 2000, Faber published Pilgrim and reissued The Wars and Famous Last Words.
His last novel, Spadework, was published in 2002, the year in which Timothy Findley died.

Type
BOOK

Keyword Index
World War, 1939-1945 - Prisons and prisoners, German - Fiction.|Prisoners of war - Austria - Fiction.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
396

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