The Biographer's Tale Condition:Like New but when they’re called to

but when they’re called to collect royal dead

He dreams of imaginary castles

a Persian polymath to rival Leonardo da Vinci

Laura witnesses a brutal attack

The Biographer's Tale Condition:Like New but when they’re called toFrom the Booker Prize winning author of Possession comes this erotic, playful, and provocative novel about the collision of art and truth. Phineas G. Nanson, a disillusioned post graduate student, decides to leave his abstract studies and pursue a seemingly concrete task: to write a biography of a great biographer. But Phineas quickly discovers that facts can be unreliable and a whole life hard to define. As he tracks his subject from Africa to the