**Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize--a tale of the strange
obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs
**
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from
glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a
memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both
professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress
he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his
memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and
unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and
shake his oversized ego to its very core.
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