The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes.
In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London. And also, secretly, his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother, who has never got over his sister's death in a suicide pact with Eli, a suicide pact that he, Eli, survived. The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, fame, and the idea - the dying idea - of The Great Man.
Genre: Literary Fiction
In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London. And also, secretly, his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother, who has never got over his sister's death in a suicide pact with Eli, a suicide pact that he, Eli, survived. The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, fame, and the idea - the dying idea - of The Great Man.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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Hardback Editions
March 2011 : UK Hardback
 | Title: The Death of Eli Gold Author(s): David Baddiel ISBN: 0-00-727083-6 / 978-0-00-727083-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
Paperback Editions
June 2012 : UK Paperback
 | Title: The Death of Eli Gold Author(s): David Baddiel ISBN: 0-00-727084-4 / 978-0-00-727084-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
March 2011 : UK Paperback
 | Title: The Death of Eli Gold Author(s): David Baddiel ISBN: 0-00-733978-X / 978-0-00-733978-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
Audio Editions
March 2011 : UK Audio CD
 | Title: The Death of Eli Gold Author(s): David Baddiel ISBN: 0-00-736765-1 / 978-0-00-736765-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Availability: Amazon UK |
March 2011 : UK Audio edition
 | Title: The Death of Eli Gold Author(s): David Baddiel Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Availability: Amazon UK |
Kindle Editions
March 2011 : UK Kindle edition
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