2013, ISBN: 9781434632289

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Terrace Books, Madison: 2013. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. A strange and wonderful book. Fallowell is a marvelous raconteur who seems incapable of writing a dull sentence.… Plus…

Terrace Books, Madison: 2013. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. A strange and wonderful book. Fallowell is a marvelous raconteur who seems incapable of writing a dull sentence."Ñ James Magruder, author of Sugarless Winner of the 2012 PEN/Ackerley Prize for Memoir A haunted memoir on the nature of belonging and the lure of escape. Duncan Fallowell sets out to odd corners of the world in pursuit of some extraordinary and improbable characters who were in most cases momentarily famousÑor infamousÑand then simply disappeared. The first to disappear is the author himselfÑto a ghostly hotel on a Mediterranean island. His subjects, though unmet or hardly met, live for the reader with remarkable vividness, such as the German artist who bought a large island in the Hebrides and vanished immediately afterward to the astonishment of its inhabitants. Fallowell tracks down the recluse who inspired Evelyn Waugh's creation Sebastian Flyte, the legendary love object of Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, who wants both to forget the past and to cling to it. He even pursues the ultimate disappearanceÑthe death of Princess DianaÑand the miasma of shock, wonder and grief that followed, writing "Mystification is absolutely essential to our feeling of being alive." In these highly original adventures, How to Disappear winds through the eerie abyss that can open up between someoneÑor somethingÑbeing both real and phantom. "In Duncan Fallowell's How to Disappear . . . travel and its chance encounters provide the pretext for pursuit of much more marginal figures: in 'Who was Alastair Graham?' he explores the post-Oxford life of Evelyn Waugh's Oxford boyfriend in a way that throws light into dim corners of British social history. In 'The Curious Case of Bapsy Pavry', an Indian lady who became the Marchioness of Winchester and lived out a long widowhood in a Firbankian fantasy of social aspiration is chased down with a tenderly marveling mordancy that is a keynote of Fallowell's brilliant and haunting book."ÑAlan Hollinghurst, The Guardian "British author, wit, and hipster Duncan Fallowell combines memoir, travel, and humor over three decades in How to Disappear. Aside from his own travel to remote places, the people who make themselves disappear are a daffy female aristocrat, a German eccentric who feared publicity, the real-life 'Sebastian Flyte' of Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh's lover at Oxford), and the tragic and immortal Princess Diana. Readers who welcome an uncharted adventure are in for a treat."ÑJerry Rosco, author of Glenway Wescott Personally Duncan Fallowell writes novels, history, autobiography, travel, libretti, lyrics, and journalism. Most recently, he is author of the novel A History Of Facelifting and the travel book Going As Far As I Can. His essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in a broad range of magazines and journals, including Vanity Fair, Playboy, The Paris Review, Esquire, Harper's, GQ, The Times, The Guardian, and Prospect. He is based in London., Terrace Books, Madison: 2013, BiblioBazaar, 2007-06-22. Paperback. Used:Good., BiblioBazaar, 2007-06-22<

2007, ISBN: 1434632288

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2007, ISBN: 9781434632289

BiblioBazaar, 2007-06-22. Paperback. Good., BiblioBazaar, 2007-06-22