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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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Plot : A chronic liar having a hidden identity as a genius composer, falls for a girl with a talented voice, saying he will never love a singer.👇 You can wa...
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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.
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- Jeff Goldblum, Charles Dance, Rupert Everett
- Comedy
- Stephen Fry, Tony Hagger
Apr 14, 2015 · The Liar is a fabulous example of everything I love in her books. She easily combines mystery, small town drama, a wonderful community and a delightful romance. In a 500-page book everything runs smoothly, and somehow, during that time, you and the characters become like family. At the beginning of The Liar, we find a distraught young widow.
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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 ...
