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Fry's hilarious novel has won praise from critics everywhere, and it hit the very top of bestseller lists in England. Its bisexual hero is a diabolically brilliant pathological liar with the wit of a Truman Capote and the moral compunctions of an amoeba.
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Characters/People edit
- Adrian Healey: One of the best characters ever. If I had his wit I would rule the world.
- David Pearce: Add a description of this character.
- Cartwright: He's a sort of Dorian Gray type character
- Hugo Bullock: Well he doesn't exactly exist, does he?
- Tommy Nutter
- Donald Trefusis
- Chartham
- Dr Menzies
- Trotter
- Gary
- Lady Helen
- Lister
- Munroe
- Humphrey Biffen
- Szabo
- Rudi
- Stefan
- Jenny
- Sampson
- Simon
- Bob
- Martin
- Peter
- Tovey
- Bela
- Garth
- Tim Anderson
- Joe
- Mr Flowerbuck
- Steele
- Mrs Twimp
- Bennett
- St Matthew
- Thompson
- Sargent
- Tony
Quotes edit
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“Little girls grow up to be women, little boys grow up to be little boys.”
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“What I am now is right, he told himself. I will never see things as clearly again, I will never understand everything as fully as I do at this minute.”
Adrian Healey -
“'You stumbled across a bundle of papers wrapped in a blanket hidden on top of a bookcase?''I am quite a stumbler when the mood is on me. I stumbled for Cambridge as an undergraduate.'”
Adrian Healey - Donald Trefusis
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'Books are not holy relics,' Trefusis had said. 'Words may be my religion, but when it comes to worship, I am very low church. The temples and the graven images are of no interest to me. The superstitious mammetry of a bourgeois obsession for books is severely annoying. Think how many children are put off reading by prissy little people ticking them off whenever they turn a page carelessly. The world is so fond of saying that books should be 'treated with respect'. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?
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A book is a piece of technology. If people wish to amass them and pay high prices for this one or that, well and good. But they can't pretend that it is any higher or more intelligent a calling than collecting snuff-boxes or bubble-gum cards.
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It was terrible to know that time would lead him to betray everything he now believed in.
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First Sentence edit
A Fame T-shirt stopped outside the house where Mozart was born.
Glossary edit
- Puszipajtás: (from Hungarian) roughly "someone you know well enough to kiss in the street"
Authors & Contributors edit
- Stephen Fry (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: William Heinemann
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0434271918
Page Count: 240
Publisher: William Heinemann
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0434271918
Page Count: 240
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- Dewey: 823.914
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