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The Liar (published 1991) is the first novel of British writer and actor Stephen Fry. The story is told out of chronological order but mostly follows the upper-class Englishman Adrian Healey through his years at public school, at Cambridge University, and afterwards. He excels at lying and entire chapters are later revealed to have been fictions.
Sep 16, 1991 · Stephen Fry is a wit and raconteur if ever there was one. His first novel "The Liar" is an interesting, erudite, comic, and witty semi thriller all in one package. The protagonist of this novel, one Adrian Healey, is always lying to and fooling others. In no great irony the person he is lying to the most is himself.
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The Liar: Directed by Tony Hagger. With Jeff Goldblum, Charles Dance, Rupert Everett, Sally Phillips. An account of a public schoolboy whose proficiency in the fibbing department, and the fallout from a schoolboy crush, opens up a marvellous fictional world of espionage.
- Tony Hagger
- Jeff Goldblum, Charles Dance, Rupert Everett
- Comedy
- Stephen Fry, Tony Hagger
Liar: Created by Harry Williams, Jack Williams. With Joanne Froggatt, Ioan Gruffudd, Zoë Tapper, Danny Webb. British psychological thriller in which schoolteacher Laura Nielson accuses renowned surgeon Andrew Earlham of rape.
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The Liar. Film based on Stephen Fry 's best selling debut novel. Also features Asa Butterfield, Jeff Goldblum, David Walliams, Charles Dance, Tom Wilkinson and more. A film about a brilliant, manipulative young man, who has a strong compulsion to lie, becomes embroiled in an elaborate 'game' of lying and finds himself in a world where nobody ...
Jun 1, 1994 · The Liar. Paperback – June 1, 1994. Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel is by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey loves to lie. He does it all the time. Every minute, every moment. And worse, he does it wonderfully, imaginatively, brilliantly.
May 24, 1993 · Comic actor/screenwriter Fry (the TV series A Bit of Fry and Laurie, etc.) weighs in with a fulsomely naughty first novel about a lascivious, blandly prevaricating English schoolboy cast adrift at public school, on the streets, at Cambridge, and in MI5. Adrian Healey—his chances in life already dented by his months as a London prostitute and his cocaine arrest—arrives at Cambridge with a ...
