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The Trick of It
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The Trick of It Paperback - 2002

by Michael Frayn

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Written in a form of protagonist's letters to his Australian friend, this novel is a subtle and psychologically exact depiction of the moral degradation of an ordinary man afflicted with envy.

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He knows everything about her before they meet: the make of pen she writes with, her exact height, the various honorary degrees she holds. He knows more about her nine novels and 27 short stories than she does herself. Naturally--he has devoted his life to studying and teaching them, and he reveres them. Also, he is four times as clever as she is.

The Trick of It is a comic and painful voyage of exploration into the creative process and the feelings it arouses in others. The humble academic disciple finds himself admitted to his subject's life, and off to this oldest friend go a series of dispatches--by turns awed and patronizing, reverential and jealous, disingenuous and appallingly frank.

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  • Title The Trick of It
  • Author Michael Frayn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA
  • Publication date 2002-12-16
  • ISBN 9780312421441 / 0312421443
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.63 x 0.45 in (21.62 x 14.30 x 1.14 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, College teachers
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003265112
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong and Spies. He has also written 13 plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards in 1999. He lives in London.

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