Famous Last Words: A NovelDelacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981 - 396 pages Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul. 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. |
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... staring down at the world . Now ; look at all the people staring up . ” And then he clambered onto the ledge and - waving at the sky - he leapt down fifteen stories to his death . In the pocket of his father's jacket — hung for many ...
... staring down at the world . Now ; look at all the people staring up . ” And then he clambered onto the ledge and - waving at the sky - he leapt down fifteen stories to his death . In the pocket of his father's jacket — hung for many ...
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... staring at the marvellous view as if he had invented it himself . Then he turned to Mauberley and beamed . " Fifteen ... stared at the concièrge , in order to shame him . But this was impossible . " He must be fed , " said Kachelmayer ...
... staring at the marvellous view as if he had invented it himself . Then he turned to Mauberley and beamed . " Fifteen ... stared at the concièrge , in order to shame him . But this was impossible . " He must be fed , " said Kachelmayer ...
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... stared with forty - six years of lines and pouches marking his eyes and mouth - though still some traces of the ... staring back at him , could see him , so he took a good long pull at the drink and settled the glass very quietly in ...
... stared with forty - six years of lines and pouches marking his eyes and mouth - though still some traces of the ... staring back at him , could see him , so he took a good long pull at the drink and settled the glass very quietly in ...
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