All Men Are Liars

In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew--or thought they knew--Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua's peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment.

In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature's inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 06/05/2012
ISBN: 9781594488351
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/30/2012 pg. 109
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Library Journal 09/15/2012 pg. 63
New York Times Book Review 12/16/2012 pg. 13
New York Times Book Review 12/23/2012 pg. 26
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 45