I Was Jack Mortimer

I Was Jack MortimerBy: Alexander Lernet Holenia Series: Pushkin Press Classics A terrific fast moving book. . . a truly clever, rather wonderful book that both plays with and defies genre Irish Times A taxi driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim, and is caught into a dangerous spiral Twice adapted for film, I Was Jack Mortimer is a tale of misappropriated identity as darkly captivating and twisting as the books of Patricia Highsmith. One doesnt step into

finely tuned narrative

a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land

Together they cover a wide range of issues

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and a collection of fun facts about the artists and their work

this volume offers a strikingly human portrayal of Islamic perspectives on day-to-day existence

and the callous disregard toward his struggle with addiction—putting today's inequality into uniquely human terms

while holding them off indefinitely

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In Fools Rule

Hoping to heal the wounds of a fractured family

measure tall buildings in a few awkward bounds