A Clue to the Exit
  • Published:
    Sep-2015
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    185
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Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel-about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling.

His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (familiar to readers of St. Aubyn's earlier work) who are locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As this train gets stuck at Didcot, and Charlie gets more passionately entangled with the dangerous Angelique, A Clue to the Exit comes to its startling climax. Exquisitely crafted, witty, and thoughtful, Edward St. Aubyn's dazzling novel probes the very heart of being.
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    • First Edition
    • Sep-2015
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1250046033
    • ISBN13: 9781250046031
    •  
    • Jun-2015
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1447253558
    • ISBN13: 9781447253556
    •  
    • Sep-2015
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1250046041
    • ISBN13: 9781250046048
    •  
    • Sep-2015
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0330462857
    • ISBN13: 9780330462853
    •  
    • Sep-2015
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1743030053
    • ISBN13: 9781743030059



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