Clue to the Exit

Clue to the ExitA beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best 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

A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador Paper
Published: 09/01/2015
ISBN: 9781250046031
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2015 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2015
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2015 pg. 19
Publishers Weekly 06/15/2015
Booklist 08/01/2015 pg. 27
Library Journal 09/01/2015 pg. 96
New York Times Book Review 09/06/2015 pg. 13
Shelf Awareness 09/11/2015
New York Times Book Review 09/13/2015 pg. 30
New Yorker (The) 12/07/2015 pg. 76
Library Journal 04/01/2015