{"product_id":"the-liar-9780939149827","title":"The Liar","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdrian Healey loves to lie. He lies all the time. Every minute  every moment. Worse  he does it wonderfully  imaginatively  brilliantly. He lies to buck the System  to express his contempt for convention  but mostly because he just plain likes to. Its fun  and so much more challenging. It is high camp. One creates when one prevaricates. \"Doesnt everyone think the way I think?\" says Adrian of his various inventions. Like the pornographic novel by Charles Dickens  his career as a Piccadilly \"rent-boy\" hireable by the hour  his stressful work as a drug \"mule\" smuggling illegal substances. He has (as his Cambridge tutor observed) \"a fine brain  but a dreadful mind.\" Already in his public school career  marked by privilege and pederasty  he had lost the ability to differentiate between simple truth and his elaborate fictions. The Liar is as wicked and witty  as unspeakably (and unquotably) funny as its protagonist narrator - and as irresistible as its multi-talented author  Stephen Fry. Mr. Frys credits grow daily. He is the star of a film entitled Peters Friends  and of Masterpiece Theaters television series Jeeves and Wooster. He is half of the Fry and Laurie comedy team  he has written a play called Latin and the book for the musical Me and My Girl  and he is a weekly columnist for the London Daily Telgraph. He is also now the author of the #1 English bestseller  The Liar  which spent several months at the very top position on the British charts. In the literary firmament it has been identified as somewhere between Oscar Wilde and Saki.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280444743733,"sku":"ByrdShop_0939149826","price":105.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780939149827.jpg?v=1780636474","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-liar-9780939149827","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}