''The Man Who Got Away'' is a 1972 novel by

Sumner Locke Elliott Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Biography Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsi ...

. He wanted to write a book about the future.

Premise

A successful TV producer begins to live his life backwards.

Reception

The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it "competent, workmanlike." A reviewer for the Sydney ''Sun Herald'' wrote, "the denouement has the flavour of a melodrama." The ''Canberra Times'' called it "powerful, thoughtful and moving."

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''The Man Who Got Away''
at AustLit {{Sumner Locke Elliott 1972 Australian novels Works by Sumner Locke Elliott