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There are many stories of Haffner. Haffner is charming, morally suspect, vain, obsessed by the libertine emperors. He is British and Jewish and a widower. But this, the most secret story, is the greatest of them all. In a forgotten spa town snug in the eastern Alps, at the end of the twentieth century, Haffner is seeking a cure, more women, and a villa that once belonged to his late wife. But really he is trying to escape: from his family, his lovers, his history, his entire Haffnerian condition. For Haffner is seventy-eight. In other words, Haffner is too old to be a grown-up. So unravels the plot of The Escape--a swift, sad farce of sexual mayhem by a novelist The New York Times has called "a prodigy."

Book details

• Full title: The Escape
• Author: Adam Thirlwell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 321
• EAN: 9780312681135
• ISBN: 0312681135
• ID: 11369834
• Publisher: Picador
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 213 × 140 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: March 2011

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