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First Person

By: Richard Flanagan
Narrated by: David James
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Summary

In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect.

Kif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl offers Kehlmann the job of ghostwriting his memoir.

He has six weeks to write the book, for which he'll be paid $10,000. But as the writing gets underway, Kehlmann begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws closer, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghost writing a memoir or if Heidl is rewriting him - his life, his future. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Siegfried Heidl - and who is Kif Kehlmann? As time runs out, one question looms above all others: what is the truth?

By turns compelling, comic and chilling, this is a haunting journey into the heart of our age.

©2017 Richard Flanagan (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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Critic reviews

"Flanagan's writing courses like a river...a vivid, voluptuous, exhilarating writer." ( The Sunday Telegraph)
"Quite simply, Flanagan is an outstanding writer." ( Metro)

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