Editions

A Fool's Alphabet

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099223214

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 210g

  • RRP: £8.99

A Fool's Alphabet

The events of Pietro Russell's life are told in 26 chapters. From A-Z each chapter is set in a different place and reveals a fragment of his story. As his memories flicker back and forth through time in his search for a resolution to the conflicts of his life, his story gradually unfolds.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099223214

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 210g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • The best novelist of his generation

    Scotsman

  • Faulks writes with great emotional authority

    Sunday Times

  • An ambitious and beautifully crafted novel

    The Time

  • Sebastian Faulks's third and most magnificent novel is a 'feel-good' experience from cover to cover

    Daily Mail

  • The uniqueness of this lovely, heartwarming novel is the way it plays with the arbitrariness of significance whilst telling the story of an uprooted life lived as a journey towards love and belonging

    Observer

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About the Author

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.

Sebastian Faulks

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