The Liar's Dictionary

preview-18
  • The Liar's Dictionary Book Detail

  • Author : Eley Williams
  • Release Date : 2021-01-05
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 13 : 0385546785
  • File Size : 84,84 MB

The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams PDF Summary

Book Description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Liar's Dictionary books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Liar's Dictionary

The Liar's Dictionary

File Size : 96,96 MB
Total View : 3956 Views
DOWNLOAD

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love s

All Men Are Liars

All Men Are Liars

File Size : 38,38 MB
Total View : 1782 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive Sout

The Warlow Experiment

The Warlow Experiment

File Size : 14,14 MB
Total View : 7048 Views
DOWNLOAD

Named one of the best books of 2019 by the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times (London), and the BBC An utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eig

Lies

Lies

File Size : 32,32 MB
Total View : 4535 Views
DOWNLOAD

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Senator Al Franken, author of Giant of the Senate Al Franken, one of our “savviest satirists” (People), has been studyin

Attrib. and Other Stories

Attrib. and Other Stories

File Size : 32,32 MB
Total View : 8612 Views
DOWNLOAD

"It's just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people." --Max Porter A dazzling, prizewinning sho