{"product_id":"first-person-by-richard-flanagan-9781761048128","title":"First Person","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlanagan's best work to date.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eReadings Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbout to go to trial for defrauding the banks of millions, con man and corporate criminal Siegfried Heidl offers broke writer Kif Kehlmann a deal he can't refuse - $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghost write his memoir in six weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the deadline draws closer and Heidl grows increasingly erratic, Kehlmann becomes unsure if he is ghost writing a memoir or if Heidl is rewriting him - his life, his future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs tension slowly mounts, boundaries and identities blur, everything that was certain grows uncertain, and the young writer finds himself no longer sure if he is Kif Kehlmann - or a murderous criminal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt a time when truth is daily contorted, debauched or ignored, we require Flanagan's artful reminder of the wreckage caused by our unwillingness to say what happened.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoth comic and frightening... Touched with the virtuosity that shone so brightly in \u003cem\u003eThe Narrow Road to the Deep North\u003c\/em\u003e that are pure Flanagan... Studded with sharp, breath-catching observations about the finite nature of life.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePowerful, funny, disturbing, moving... Flanagan candidly and honestly confronts the raw truths of the writing life and the family life, material and spiritual poverty, love and despair and desire.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eAustralian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA triumph... a parable for the age of Trump... As harrowing a book as any I've read.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eWeekend Australian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrilliant... full of hilarious asides, this sonorous, blackly comic novel offers searing insight into our times.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eBooklist (US)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46530485190892,"sku":"9781761048128","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27868223482814.jpg?v=1749259045","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/first-person-by-richard-flanagan-9781761048128","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}