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Présentation de l'éditeur
'My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old - or will be in ten days' time, in the early hours of January 1st, 2000, when I kill myself.'
Raphael Ignatius Phoenix has had enough. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, he is determined to take his own life as the old millennium ends and the new one begins. But before he ends it all, he wants to get his affairs in order and put the record straight, and that includes making sense of his own long life - a life that spanned the century. He decides to write it all down and, eschewing the more usual method of pen and paper, begins to record his story on the walls of the isolated castle that is his final home. Beginning with a fateful first adventure with Emily, the childhood friend who would become his constant companion, Raphael remembers the multitude of experiences, the myriad encounters and, of course, the ten murders he committed along the way . . .
And so begins one man's wholly unorthodox account of the twentieth century - or certainly his own riotous, often outrageous, somewhat unreliable and undoubtedly singular interpretation of it.
Biographie de l'auteur
Paul Sussman read history at Cambridge, where he was also a Boxing Blue. From an early age his abiding passion was archaeology and he worked in the field, and was a member of the first team to excavate new ground in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
He brought this interest and enthusiasm to his novels - The Lost Army of Cambyses, The Last Secret of the Temple, The Hidden Oasis and The Labyrinth of Osiris - which have been translated into over 30 languages and have sold over three million copies. A founding journalist with the Big Issue, he also wrote for the Independent, Guardian, Evening Standard and for CNN.com.
Paul died suddenly in May 2012. He was just 45. He is survived by his wife, a television producer, and their two sons.
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- ÉditeurBlack Swan
- Date d'édition2014
- ISBN 10 0552779717
- ISBN 13 9780552779715
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages400
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