Famous Last Words
Author: Timothy Findley
In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament – the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of….Read More
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