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Ninth Life of Louis Drax

By Liz Jensen

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| Paperback | 9780747577836

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Coming soon as a major motion picture by Anthony Minghella, Oscar-winning director of The English Patient

Meet Louis Drax, the Amazing Accident-Prone Boy.

Louis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. HisContinue

Coming soon as a major motion picture by Anthony Minghella, Oscar-winning director of The English Patient

Meet Louis Drax, the Amazing Accident-Prone Boy.

Louis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. His psychologist is baffled, and his mother lives in a constant state of panic. He has always managed to survive-to land on his feet, like a cat. But cats have only nine lives, and Louis has used up eight, one for every year.

On his ninth birthday, Louis goes on a picnic with his parents and falls off a cliff. The details are shrouded in mystery. Louis's mother is shell-shocked; his father has vanished. And after some confusion Louis himself, miraculously alive but deep in a coma, arrives at Dr. Pascal Dannachet's celebrated coma clinic.

Was the fall really an accident? If anyone knows, they're not telling. Until one day, still deep within his coma, Louis meets the bandaged figure who calls himself Gustave, and begins to tell his tale...

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax is the story of a family falling apart, told in the vivid voices of its comatose son and Dr. Dannachet as he is drawn into the Draxes' circle. Full of astonishing twists and turns, this is a masterful tale of the secrets the human mind can hide.

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  • Tales of the unconscious

    The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen Bloomsbury £16.99, pp320 Liz Jensen's fifth novel, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, became famous long before publication, when Miramax and Warner Bros engaged in a vigorous battle for the film rights. Miramax ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • This boy's lives

    The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen 277pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 Nine-year-old Louis Drax, disturbed and accident-prone from birth, wanders away from a picnic site in the Auvergne. It's an idyllic spot, scented with wild thyme and made sleepy by ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 240 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0747577838
  • ISBN-13: 9780747577836
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Pub date: Apr 04, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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