The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce
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The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce is a darkly comic British novel that follows a man's life unraveling through his obsessive passion for fine wine, told in reverse chronological order.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
dark comedy
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Paul Torday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOf | Paul Torday bibliography ⓘ |
| centralCharacterOccupation | IT entrepreneur ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| follows | a man whose life unravels through his passion for fine wine ⓘ |
| genre |
comic fiction
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dark comedy ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
middle-aged crisis
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personal decline ⓘ wine collecting ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
addiction
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alcoholism ⓘ fine wine ⓘ obsession ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFormat | reverse chronological order ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| precededBy | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistName | Wilberforce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | England ⓘ |
| structure | told backwards in time ⓘ |
| tone | darkly comic ⓘ |
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