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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... face . The face she saw in her private mirror was a face no other human being had seen . It was her mid- night face , and mostly in her mind . The true face - lifted and lacquered - was the one she showed to others and the world . But ...
... face . The face she saw in her private mirror was a face no other human being had seen . It was her mid- night face , and mostly in her mind . The true face - lifted and lacquered - was the one she showed to others and the world . But ...
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... face . It made him cringe . At once he was uncomfortably aware the images were staring back at him , could see him , so he took a good long pull at the drink and settled the glass very quietly in front of him before he dared raise his ...
... face . It made him cringe . At once he was uncomfortably aware the images were staring back at him , could see him , so he took a good long pull at the drink and settled the glass very quietly in front of him before he dared raise his ...
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... faces - every face an oval marked with all the appro- priate dots : two eyes , a mouth , a nose and all pulled taut and pinned into place with outsized jewelled ears . I remem- ber the ears so vividly , and the sound around the table of ...
... faces - every face an oval marked with all the appro- priate dots : two eyes , a mouth , a nose and all pulled taut and pinned into place with outsized jewelled ears . I remem- ber the ears so vividly , and the sound around the table of ...
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