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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 In between, he falls in love with his beautiful underclassman, Hugo Cartwright, forges an "unpublished" Dickens manuscript, works as a rent boy [[spoiler:(allegedly)]], and [[spoiler:gets involved in a pretend murder mystery.]]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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