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In this beautifully imagined book, a correspondent interviews people who knew—or believed they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, an excellent, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and composer of the masterpiece, In Praise of Laying. However the balances of these in his group of friends, enemies, and lovers become progressively dirty, contrary, and suspect. Is everybody laying, or simply informing their very own subjective model of the reality? Whilst the fictional analysis originates and a refrain of Bevilacqua’s friends patch together the broken truth of his life, thirty years after his death, just the audience retains the ability of ultimate judgment.In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel gives respect to literature’s innovations and examines whether we could ever really understand somebody, and the issue of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves is likely to be appreciated.