The Death of Eli Gold
Author | : David Baddiel |
Publisher | : Fourth Estate |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 0007270844 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780007270842 |
Rating | : 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London. And also, secretly, his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother, who has never got over his sister's death in a suicide pact with Eli, a suicide pact that Eli survived. The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, fame, and the idea - the dying idea - of The Great Man.