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3	''The Liar'', Creator/StephenFry's first novel, is, more or less, a ComingOfAgeStory about a compulsive liar. It centers around a young man named Adrian Healey, beginning with his public school years and ending sometime after he graduates from [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Cambridge]]. In between, he falls in love with his beautiful underclassman, Hugo Cartwright, forges an "unpublished" Dickens manuscript, works as a rent boy [[spoiler:(allegedly)]], and [[spoiler:gets involved in a pretend murder mystery.]] The novel is told in AnachronicOrder with a liberal dosage of UnreliableNarrator, although the book is written in the third person.
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5	!!''The Liar'' provides examples of:
6	* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler:Cartwright, by the end.]]
7	* AnachronicOrder: The whole book. It can take two reads to get the whole story.
8	* AuthorAvatar: Adrian shares some similarities with a young Stephen Fry.
9	%%* BedmateReveal: Between Peter and Joe in ''Peter Flowerbuck''.
10	* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Adrian asks Professor Trefusis whether these sorts of lies could be picked up by a lie detector.
11	%%* ComfortingComforter: Done once by Cartwright.
12	%%* ComingOfAgeStory: At its core.
13	%%* ConsummateLiar: Adrian
14	%%* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Part of a gambit by Adrian.
15	* HoldingTheFloor: Adrian does this to keep a meeting regarding Trefusis's trial from being televised.
16	* LoverAndBeloved: Adrian is briefly in this kind of a relationship with an actor. [[spoiler:Except he isn't.]]
17	%%* PlatonicProstitution: Occurs in ''Peter Flowerbuck.''
18	%%* RedLightDistrict: Picadilly
19	%%* RomanAClef:
20	%%* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Adrian is full of these.
21	* ShowWithinAShow: ''Peter Flowerbuck''
22	%%* UnreliableNarrator: Adrian, again.

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