Autobiopsy

by Bernice Rubens

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Pick his brains - you know it makes sense. Well, what would you do? Your mentor and best friend, herald as the 'greatest novelist of our time', suddenly expires, and you find yourself bereft of a cherished companion's wit and wisdom. Your twelve-year stretch of writer's block, too, now seems like a life sentence. For Martin Peabody, the answer is simple. You remove your dead friend's brain, syphon off his thoughts, and use them as inspiration to revive your career and write a fitting show more testament to a great man - an autobiopsy, if you like. This superbly sharp and funny novel shows Booker-winner Bernice Rubens at her best. show less

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This is the somewhat strange story of a man who cures writer's block by siphoning off the thoughts of his dead mentor's brain to write a 'fictional autobiography'. It's original and fairly witty, particularly the dead-pan handling of the surreal premise, and Rubens just about holds together the parallel plots of the autobiography and the autobiographer's life. However, the ending is predictable and autobiographer's life distinctly less involving than the story he is writing.

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Original publication date
1993
Dedication
To

Liza Williams

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When I say that my friend Walter Berry was the greatest novelist of our time, I am not exaggerating.

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General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PR6068 .U2 .A98Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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