| All Men Are Liars Contributor(s): Manguel, Alberto (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594488355 ISBN-13: 9781594488351 Publisher: Riverhead Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012002300 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew--or thought they knew--Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua's peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment. In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature's inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered. |