Engleby is a novel by the author Sebastian Faulks.
One morning, just before his alarm went off, Sebastian Faulks heard a strange voice in his head. A monotonal, matter-of-fact voice; chatty but detached, like a badly tuned radio. "My name is Mike Engleby," it said by way of introduction, "and I'm in my second year at an ancient university." It was this voice inside his head helped Faulks write Engleby in no time, with very little research. He him...
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Engleby is a novel by the author Sebastian Faulks.
One morning, just before his alarm went off, Sebastian Faulks heard a strange voice in his head. A monotonal, matter-of-fact voice; chatty but detached, like a badly tuned radio. "My name is Mike Engleby," it said by way of introduction, "and I'm in my second year at an ancient university." It was this voice inside his head helped Faulks write Engleby in no time, with very little research. He himself says in an interview: "It's the only book that I've enjoyed writing and I was chuckling away a lot."
Engleby is a first-person colloquial (his diary becomes the vehicle for a rambling narration), with a lot of contemporary references. The novel begins in the 1970s; having survived the bullying and torment of a traditional boarding school, the nerdy, working-class protagonist serves up a dispassionate account of English education and, by association, an England its students hope to change.
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