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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... woman asked , sitting with her hip against the floor and her back against the seat . “ Did we hit another train ? " A man , quite young , a civilian and perhaps a minor official from one of the consulates , let down the window ...
... woman asked , sitting with her hip against the floor and her back against the seat . “ Did we hit another train ? " A man , quite young , a civilian and perhaps a minor official from one of the consulates , let down the window ...
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... woman said . " Yes . Against orders . " “ I'm afraid , ” said the man at the window , " he's right . They are coming , many , many soldiers now , along the road . I can see them very clearly . Units of the S.S. ” " Dear God — they have ...
... woman said . " Yes . Against orders . " “ I'm afraid , ” said the man at the window , " he's right . They are coming , many , many soldiers now , along the road . I can see them very clearly . Units of the S.S. ” " Dear God — they have ...
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... woman first - and she nudged her husband . " Look . " The woman's hair was covered with a woollen scarf , and she wore a moleskin coat and a pair of army boots . She looked , in fact , very much the sort of woman who might have been in ...
... woman first - and she nudged her husband . " Look . " The woman's hair was covered with a woollen scarf , and she wore a moleskin coat and a pair of army boots . She looked , in fact , very much the sort of woman who might have been in ...
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