The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix by Paul Sussman

The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix by Paul Sussman

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.

More than lives up to its promise..it's the first novel Sussman ever wrote, yet the things that made him such a distinctive writer - his boundless imagination, his love of the bizarre, his ability to keep a complex plot bowling along - are already firmly in place. The book is as darkly funny as it is original. * JOHN PRESTON, Mail on Sunday *
Chaotic, surreal, tricksy and so alive... Sussman's first written and last published novel has shades of Vonnegut, Donleavy and Golding's Pincher Martin. Loved it * JONATHAN GRIMWOOD, author of The Last Banquet *

Journalist and novelist Paul Sussman read history at Cambridge, where he won a Joseph Larmor Award and was a Boxing Blue. From an early age his abiding passion was archaeology and he worked in the field, in particular in Egypt (where he was part 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. Paul’s journalism appeared across the media, including in the Big Issue, Independent, Guardian, Evening Standard and on CNN.com.
Paul died suddenly in May 2012, aged 45. He is survived by his wife, a television producer, and their two sons. In 2014, the posthumous publication of what was in fact his first novel - The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix - fulfilled a long-held wish.

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ISBN 13	9780552779678
ISBN 10	0552779679
Title	The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix
Author	Paul Sussman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	2014-12-04
Number of pages	416
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