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    The Pretender
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    The Pretender

    By David Belbin

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    Mark Trace shows a remarkable talent for literary forgery. A gap year in Paris sees his skill exploited by a manuscript dealer. Mark fetches up in London, working at one of the UK's oldest literary magazines. That's when the trouble really starts. Hemingway and Graham Greene are only the beginning. What starts as a prank soon becomes deadly serious. In this literary thriller David Belbin writes about originality, desire and literary ambition, in the voice of a character with the capacity to deceive everyone, including himself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive Leaves Publications
    Release dateSep 28, 2011
    ISBN9781907869334
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    The Pretender
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    David Belbin

    David Belbin is the author of forty novels for teenagers and several books for older readers, including 'The Pretender', about literary forgery, and the crime/politics series 'Bone and Cane'. His YA novels include 'Love Lessons', 'The Last Virgin' & 'The Beat' series. He teaches creative writing at Nottingham Trent University. Full biography and bibliography at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Belbin

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    • 2/5
      This book was enjoyable, but had a disappointing ending. Very average. For having the name of "literary thriller" it had little suspense and on occasions read more like a teenage coming-of-age story than an account of literary fraud on a classic scale. Another bad point was the rather glaring mistake made at a point when something is revealed, as "Phil Mercer!" is exclaimed, when up until that late point in the book the character had been named PAUL Mercer, not Phil. But I'm easily irked. The ending was a flat anti-climax and wirtten with such over-emphasized bleakness that it was almost as if the character was making a fuss about nothing. All in all, not the hardest book to get into but not very rewarding either. It seemed there was more focus on when the main character would lose his virginity and with whom, than there was on an actual plot crescendo.