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sceptical and romantic
In 1985 in a North Texas backwater
a French archaeologist
and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity
everything changes
Engleby Robert Goddard sceptical and romanticMike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career,
