Kill Your Darlings by Terence Blacker

Kill Your Darlings by Terence Blacker

In a dishevelled west London flat the body of a young man lies crumpled, the victim of a suicide. In a stylish family home less than a mile away is a writer: stranded in mid-life, his one triumph behind him, his family slipping away from him, all he has to hold on to is his self-belief that one day the world will recognise his talents. From these two seemingly unrelated elements, Terence Blacker creates a magnificently compulsive novel of ego, envy, self-deception and, ultimately, self-destruction. Gregory Keays is a man with a wonderful future behind him. A dazzlingly brilliant first work has led to a series of false starts, wrong turnings and critical cold shoulders. Reduced to compiling a book of literary lists and stuck in the mire of his latest fiction, Insignificance, Gregory's life turns around when he takes under his wing Peter Gibson, a promising student at the night school where he teaches creative writing. When Gibson kills himself following an argument with his mentor, Gregory pays him the highest compliment - he appropriates his work and passes it off as his own...

Terence Blacker is a writer and journalist. He writes regularly for the Independent and the Sunday Times.

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ISBN 13	9780753812723
ISBN 10	075381272X
Titel	Kill Your Darlings
Autor	Terence Blacker
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Orion Publishing Co
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-10-04
Seitenanzahl	304
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