Description
Mike Engleby is a working-class scholarship student at an ancient university who moves through adulthood with sharp intelligence, sardonic wit, and an unsettling detachment from those around him. As he builds a career and attempts relationships in London, the disappearance of a young woman draws him into a murder investigation and forces the carefully controlled story of his life into question. Blending psychological suspense with dark social observation, the novel explores class, privilege, alienation, memory, and the unreliable ways people construct their own identities. Its distinctive first-person voice offers a provocative, deeply unsettling portrait of a man who remains both compelling and impossible to fully trust.
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paperback
Hutchinson
Published Oct 4, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 9780091795719
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Details
First Published
2007
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Engleby by Sebastian Faulks.