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Despair, Paperback / softback Book

Despair Paperback / softback

Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series

Paperback / softback

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'A work of rapture - jolting, hilarious and incredibly racy' Martin Amis, The TimesSelf-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously.

But then a chance meeting with Felix, a man he believes to be his double, reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature.

Convinced that he has found his doppelgänger, Hermann uses this discovery to weave a money-making plan that leads to disguise, betrayal and eventually murder.

Filled with impudent, startling humour, and dominated by the egotistical and scornful figure of a killer who thinks himself an artist, Despair takes us into a deranged world of doubles and illusions, where nothing is quite as it seems.

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