A Fool's Alphabet
Published on 7. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-80494-436-3 (ISBN)
Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Ambitious and beautifully crafted' THE TIMES
'Faulks writes with great emotional authority' SUNDAY TIMES
Amidst the letters of the alphabet, a life reveals itself. Flashing backwards and forwards through time, we meet Pietro Russell. As a photographer in Sri Lanka, a schoolboy in Fulham and even before he was born to his wounded English father and young Italian mother. The extraordinary moments of Pietro's life are navigated with unique imagination, giving the reader a chance to view a life from a new and moving vantage point.
A Fool's Alphabet is a novel of true invention from a master storyteller that sees life in all of its compelling, poignant glory.
'Ambitious and beautifully crafted' THE TIMES
'Faulks writes with great emotional authority' SUNDAY TIMES
Amidst the letters of the alphabet, a life reveals itself. Flashing backwards and forwards through time, we meet Pietro Russell. As a photographer in Sri Lanka, a schoolboy in Fulham and even before he was born to his wounded English father and young Italian mother. The extraordinary moments of Pietro's life are navigated with unique imagination, giving the reader a chance to view a life from a new and moving vantage point.
A Fool's Alphabet is a novel of true invention from a master storyteller that sees life in all of its compelling, poignant glory.
Reviews / Votes
"A Fool's Alphabet is a poignant and highly readable novel that runs the gamut of experience from well, from A to Z."-Herald
"Sebastian Faulks's third and most magnificent novel is a feel-good experience from cover to cover. At a time when writers seem obliged to present the seedy or the wicked as reflections of the dirty, real world, we have here something that goes deeper than greed and explores our emotional rather than material being."
-Daily Mail
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cornerstone
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
216 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80494-436-3 (9781804944363)
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Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.