This is an unabridged audiobook title.
This is a brilliant book: disturbing, amusing, thought-provoking, playful, real, unreal. All the usual Faulks intelligence and enjoyment of language is here.
Yet Engleby is different from his other books. This time, you get the feeling Faulks has let you into his own life: school, university, Notting Hill, journalism (the interviews with Jeffrey Archer and Ken Livingstone just can’t have been made up).
There is a catharsis here – and, despite the disturbances in Mike Engleby’s brain, you can feel Faulks really enjoying his writing, making this book perhaps more approachable than some of his other subjects.
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| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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AUDIO SYNOPSIS
Duration: 11h 15m (approx.) on 11 CD(s)
Narrated by Michael Maloney
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career, which brings us up to the present day, we are led to ask: is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth?
Engleby: Unabridged Audiobook features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction
Engleby: Unabridged Audiobook is available in CD-Audio
Engleby: Unabridged Audiobook was written by Sebastian Faulks and published by Whole Story Audio Books an imprint of W F Howes Ltd