Six weeks to write for
your life... 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.
A young and penniless
writer, Kif Kehlmann, 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 proposes a deal: $10,000 for
Kehlmann to ghost write his memoir in six weeks.
But as the writing gets
under way, 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 Seigfried Heidl—and who
is Kif Kehlmann?
By turns compelling,
comic, and chilling, First Person is a haunting journey into the heart of our
age.
Advance Praise
'Flanagan is scathingly funny about the world of
publishing as seen from the point of view of an unpublished writer, but this is
also a profound and thought-provoking novel that explores the nature of truth,
lies and fiction' - The Bookseller
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