A Clue to the Exit: A Novel, by Edward St. Aubyn
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A Clue to the Exit: A Novel, by Edward St. Aubyn
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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.
A Clue to the Exit: A Novel, by Edward St. Aubyn- Amazon Sales Rank: #611014 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Released on: 2015-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.18" h x .56" w x 5.50" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
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“St. Aubyn delivers memorable characters, dark humor, and sublime writing in this stand-alone effort.” ―Library Journal
“One of the great comic writers of our time.” ―The New York Times Review of Books
“Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation.” ―Alan Hollinghurst
“One of the preeminent writers of his generation.” ―Will Self
“One of the great prose stylists in England” ―Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
“St. Aubyn is utterly fearless.” ―Lev Grossman, Time
From the Inside Flap Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter of "Aliens with a Human Heart, 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. Set on a train, it involves a group of characters locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As the train gets stuck at Didcot Junction, Charlie becomes more passionately entangled with the dangerous young woman who is his nemesis.
From the Back Cover “Once more, St Aubyn takes us to the very limits of the expressible.” –Spectator
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The Last Writes. By Sue Kichenside In his novella, Edward St Aubyn imagines what it must be like for Charlie, his narrator, to receive a death sentence from the doctor. Fleeing to the South of France to work on his legacy - a novel - Charlie meets and falls in lust with gambling-addict Angelique. The writing will be done at the tables of the Monte Carlo casino. The book within the book wherein three characters wrestle with the concept of consciousness is a tad heavy-going and cerebral. Charlie's introspection is understandable given the circumstances and spiked by this author's exceptional wit. But the prose, ah, the prose is to die for. Here's a taste of one of the lighter passages:"It's a pink house with white gates. At the front there are two palm trees, floodlit, so the burglars don't fall flat on their faces. At the back, four minuscule cypresses, like self-conscious bridesmaids, accompany the concrete driveway to the garage. If you climb on the roof and jump, you can see the sea. Inside there are still-empty niches everywhere, and tiny flights of steps leading from one thing to another. Two steps up to the kitchen, three down to the living area, one onto the patio, two into the garden, and a final glissando of steps back to the entrance area...It's as if the builder had stumbled across the concept of a step and couldn't believe his luck."
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful. St. Abyn Rides Again By Elaine O. Chaika St. Aubyn's previous books were phenomenal. This one isn't. It doesn't have the wit, the characterization, the plot of the others, but I guess if you choose impending death as your topic, how witty can you be? Although he did manage brilliant wit in his trilogy which included a graphic graphic account of our hero on a drug binge to end all drug binges.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Good writing that doesn't add up to much By TChris Charlie Fairburn has six months to live. He’s a writer and he’d like to write about his impending death, but death is depressing so his agent (who wants him to continue writing screenplays) tells him to write something upbeat. Instead, Charlie sells his house, moves into a hotel, and begins work on a novel called On the Train, snatches of which appear as A Clue to the Exit moves forward.As every starving artist intuits and as Charlie soon learns, luxury inhibits ambition, so Charlie embarks on a course that will relieve him of the burden of wealth and inspire creativity. His quest takes him to a casino, where parties and a beautiful gambler interfere with his ability to solve “the riddle of consciousness” via the literary exploration of death.At some point, the beautiful gambler asks him why he’s writing what he’s writing -- what the point of it is -- and it’s a question I was asking, as well. She wants Charlie to meet his death by writing a celebration of life. Instead, he’s writing a story in which pretentious characters discuss the philosophical implications of quantum physics. While the questions they ask are worth pondering -- from Charlie’s dying perspective, the question is how to live consciously -- I agree with the gambler that the story is dry and lifeless. But that’s probably the point. As Charlie provides a pedantic explanation of the novel’s goals and the techniques he is using to achieve them, it becomes all the more clear that Charlie really doesn’t know what he wants to say.It takes a shocking amount of time for a guy with six months to live who loves but is estranged from his daughter to figure out what is important in his brief remaining life. He gains some other worthwhile insights (people should not hurt others to make themselves happy) but they are less than profound. He also arrives at the conclusion that “consciousness and experience are synonymous.” I take his meaning (I feel the sun warming my face, therefore I am) but the words really aren’t synonymous.I think Charlie's ultimate realization is that life is a collection of experiences which, again, is hardly a momentous epiphany. His last great insight is “the thing that is closest to us is the most mysterious” which made me wonder when Charlie was going to get around to dying. Someone who is devoting the end of his life to deep thoughts might want to come up with something more meaningful. Or better yet, opt for hedonism, since he’s still young enough to enjoy it.Near the end of the novel, Charlie goes on something like a vision quest that struck me as laughable. Maybe it was intended as humor. My greatest reservation about this novel is that, while some scenes are amusing, I can’t tell whether it is meant to be taken seriously. If so, I can’t. If not, too many scenes are pointless to justify reading it as a comedy. There is an abundance of good writing here, but it never adds up to much.
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