All Men Are Liars by Alberto Manguel
In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew--or thought they knew--Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying.But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua's peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment.
In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature's inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered.
Alberto Manguel is a renowned anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, and editor who has worked all over the world. For his bestselling and much-loved A History of Reading, he was recently awarded France's Prix Médicis. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, published by Knopf Canada, is being reissued this fall.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594488351 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594488355 |
| Title | All Men Are Liars |
| Author | Alberto Manguel |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2012-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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