A Very Persistent Illusion

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Author: L. C. Tyler About This Author
Price: £ 14.99
Date Available: 6 March 2009
Publisher: Macmillan New Writing

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A Very Persistent Illusion

Details: UK First Edition / First Printing. SIGNED, LINED & DATED by the author.

Book Detail
"A Very Persistent Illusion" is a hilarious, hugely inventive and thought-provoking novel about love, madness and reality from the author of the brilliant debut, The Herring Seller's Apprentice.

Synopsis
Inventor of the Sorensen-Birtwistle Revised Scale of Girl-Rage, Chris has a beautiful girlfriend (Virginia), two like able potential parents-in-law (Hugh and Daphne) and a classic sports car with a leather-covered gear stick. Impending matrimony and the car's leaking roof seem to be the only clouds on the horizon. But his apparently comfortable world is turned upside down when Hugh dies suddenly and Daphne (after one Irish Cream too many) reveals some shocking information. Meanwhile...In an inn, in the Danube Valley, in the seventeenth century, a certain cantankerous philosopher seems to have some words of guidance for our modern-day hero. We join Virginia and Chris (and Rene) as they seek to uncover the truth about Hugh, themselves and the meaning of life.