The final testimony of raphael ignatius phoenix

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Label

The final testimony of raphael ignatius phoenix

Statement of responsibility

Paul Sussman

Creator

• Sussman, Paul

Contributor

• hoopla digital
• Griffin, Gordon

Subject

• Audiobooks
• Fiction

Genre

• Audiobooks

Language

eng

Summary

My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old - or will be in ten days' time, in the early hours of January 1st, 2000, when I kill myself...' Raphael Ignatius Phoenix has had enough. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, he is determined to take his own life as the old millennium ends and the new one begins. But before he ends it all, he wants to get his affairs in order and put the record straight. That includes making sense of his own long life - a life that spanned the century. He decides to write it all down and, eschewing the more usual method of pen and paper, begins to record his story on the walls of the isolated castle that is his final home. Beginning with a fateful first adventure with Emily, the childhood friend who would become his constant companion, Raphael remembers the multitude of experiences, the myriad encounters and, of course, the ten murders he committed along the way...And so begins one man's wholly unorthodox account of the twentieth century - or certainly his own riotous, often outrageous, somewhat unreliable and undoubtedly singular interpretation of it

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

PerformerNote

Read by Gordon Griffin

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable