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The Death of Eli Gold
David Baddiel
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Description for The Death of Eli Gold
Paperback. The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 122 x 28. Weight in Grams: 302.
The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes.
In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London. And also, secretly, his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother, who has never got over his sister's death in a suicide pact with Eli, a ... Read more
The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, fame, and the idea - the dying idea - of The Great Man.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007270842
SKU
9780007270842
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About David Baddiel
David Baddiel was born in 1964 in Troy, New York, but grew up and lives in London. He is a comedian, television writer, columnist and author of three previous novels, of which the most recent is The Secret Purposes.
Reviews for The Death of Eli Gold
‘The Death of Eli Gold is, like it's hero, an impressive and energetic piece of work. Unlike Eli, however, it is tender, rather lovely…And, of course, richly comic. Those who care to read between the one-liners will hear a more serious voice emerge: a maturing writer who may, with his next novel, be ready to throw off his English reserve ... Read more