The Biographer's Tale
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possessioncomes this erotic, playful, and provocative novel about the collision of art and truth.
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Phineas G. Nanson, a disillusioned post-graduate student, decides to leave his abstract studies and pursue a seemingly concrete task: to write a biography of a great biographer. But Phineas quickly discovers that facts can be unreliable and a "whole life" hard to define. As he tracks his subject from Africa to the Arctic, he comes to rely on two women-one of whom may be the guide he needs out of his research and back into his own life. A tantalizing yarn of detection and desire, The Biographer's Taleis a provocative look at "truth" in biography and our perennial quest for certainty.
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