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by Richard Flanagan

A penniless writer is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of a notorious corporate criminal awaiting trial for bank fraud. As the six-week deadline approaches, he finds his sense of self and moral integrity compromised by his subject's manipulative behaviour.

Accession 25080 ISBN 9780143787242 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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