Four Last Things

William Palmer

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Vintage
04 February 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

""Do you know what the last four things are? In the

Christian catechism they are Death, Judgment, Heaven

and Hell. But in our secular age they should perhaps be

changed. I suggest - First Love, Friendship, Betrayal

and Death . . . These also happen to be the staples of

the novelist. Is that the sort of thing you want?""'

Thus Cornelius Marten asks the researcher who turns up one night

at his house. Cornelius has forgotten his invitation to the young

man. But the young woman who accompanies him seems strangely

familiar. Cornelius is flattered by their attention. He had thought

himself almost forgotten; his great works neglected. And Cornelius,

monstrously selfish, whisky glass constantly in hand, his mind

shifting between past and present, finds that his mysterious guests

release memories and truths he had preferred to forget.

The stories which follow Four Last Things complement and explore

some of the same themes- the poet who has published only one poem; a bizarre stag night; a child who is haunted by his encounter

with the adult world of a religious maniac; a dreamed murder;

an academic who stirs the ghost of Byron in modern Venice;

the shifts and deceptions of language and memory; and in a great

jazzman's last wordless hurrah, a final flowering of beauty.

This irresistibly powerful volume by the author of The Good

Republic, Leporello and The Contract confirms William Palmer as

one of our finest writers.

By: William Palmer
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9780099584339
ISBN 10: 0099584336
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 February 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

William Palmer is the author of five novels, The Good Republic, Leporello, The Contract, The Pardon of Saint Anne and The India House, and a collection of short stories, Four Last Things. He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Society of Authors in 1997. A book of poems, The Island Rescue, won the Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers' Week festival in Ireland in 2006. He reviews regularly for the Independent and other journals. He lives in south-west London. http-//www.williampalmer.info/

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