The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

“The very model of the modern paranoid novel” ( New York Times )—an ambitious work of semi-autobiographical fiction from one of England’s greatest novelists. “Unblinking candor informs Waugh's dark, comic vision.”―William Boyd, Daily Telegraph (UK) Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to defeat insomnia he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral, and crème de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban and, as it cru