- Paperback: 196 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (6 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099285789
- ISBN-13: 978-0099285786
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,353,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"My mind is busy, busy, busy. I just don't see how I'm going to fit dying into my packed schedule." Charlie Fairburn, screenwriter supremo of "Aliens with a Human Heart" has been told he's got six months to live--so he goes through every clue in the book as to how to make it bearable: sells his pink pad in St Tropez, lives it up in grand hotels, beds the beautiful Angelique and lets her gamble away his fortune, tries poverty on a remote bit of the Med, then silence in the desert and tries writing "something honest and complete". His topic is consciousness and the characters in his novel, "On the Train", have just left an Oxford conference on consciousness, and are stuck at Didcot Junction. Among them are the wordy French linguist Jean-Paul, Crystal of New Age enthusiasms and, off-stage in a coma, her husband Peter (all three of them were the main characters in St Aubyn's last novel, On the Edge, shortlisted for the Guardian prize).
Edward St Aubyn is a dazzlingly witty satirist of almost everything. Mostly his writing is outstanding in its comic set-pieces, inventive enquiries, digressions on writing itself, and its quick and unsettling asides. But it's the morphing of the big existential questions into our current obsession with the brain that St Aubyn addresses most satirically--and most concernedly. Somehow, could knowing everything about that bit of grey matter let us squirm out of "the fear in the marrow, the fear of loveless desolation which was laying waste the last months of my (Charlie's) life?". Underneath it lies a deadly serious and terrifically entertaining novel, worthy of admiration and attention. --Ruth Petrie
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"Once more, St Aubyn takes us to the very limits of the expressible." -"Spectator
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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.
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