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A Fool’s Alphabet

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Amidst the letters of the alphabet, a life reveals itself. Flashing backwards and forwards through time, we meet Pietro Russell. As a photographer in Sri Lanka, a schoolboy in Fulham and even before he was born to his wounded English father and young Italian mother. The extraordinary moments of Pietro's life are navigated with unique imagination, giving the reader a chance to view a life from a new and moving vantage point.

A Fool's Alphabet is a novel of true invention from a master storyteller that sees life in all of its compelling, poignant glory.

'Ambitious and beautifully crafted' THE TIMES
'Faulks writes with great emotional authority' SUNDAY TIMES

© Sebastian Faulks 1992 (P) Penguin Audio 2011

Critics Review

The best novelist of his generation
Scotsman
A conventionally-told tale in an unconventional narrative form
Financial Times
Faulks writes with great emotional authority... There are the same escapist pleasures, too: meals are described in rapt, mouthwatering detail, whitewashed villages and Mediterranean seascapes brought to such vivid life that you want to jump on the nearest aeroplane and see them for yourself
Sunday Times
Sebastian Faulks's third and most magnificent novel is a 'feel-good' experience from cover to cover
Daily Mail
Elevated by some delicate prose, particularly in evocation of childhood and adolescence, A Fool's Alphabet is a poignant and highly readable novel that runs the gamut of experience from well, from A to Z
Herald
An ambitious and beautifully crafted novel
The Time
Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Jamie Glover
Duration 9 hours and 40 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781446454640
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: journeys and voyages, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Availability AU, GB, IE

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