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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... hand- " he looked Herr Kachelmayer straight in the eye " —I am not in any trouble at all that you are not in , now ... hand . Opening his eyes , the first thing he saw was all the bright towels hung up along the wall , three of them ...
... hand- " he looked Herr Kachelmayer straight in the eye " —I am not in any trouble at all that you are not in , now ... hand . Opening his eyes , the first thing he saw was all the bright towels hung up along the wall , three of them ...
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... hand was still supporting Mauberley's chin . He laid his other hand against the shoul- der of the twisted arm that held the silver pencil . Oakley was now on the floor by his side . " Okay ? " " Okay ... " They pushed , very gently ...
... hand was still supporting Mauberley's chin . He laid his other hand against the shoul- der of the twisted arm that held the silver pencil . Oakley was now on the floor by his side . " Okay ? " " Okay ... " They pushed , very gently ...
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... hand . " I've read your work . It's very fine . " de Broca had blue eyes . He was slim and perhaps con- sumptive . Something was wrong with the way he stood and the way he breathed . It seemed a tremendous effort just to be there ...
... hand . " I've read your work . It's very fine . " de Broca had blue eyes . He was slim and perhaps con- sumptive . Something was wrong with the way he stood and the way he breathed . It seemed a tremendous effort just to be there ...
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