The Death of Eli Gold

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.

Title - The Death of Eli Gold

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Author - David Baddiel

ISBN 13 - 9780007270835

Imprint - Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers

Date Published - 03/03/2011

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Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 159 x 240 x 41mm

Weight - 783 g

Languages - English