Mantissa - Softcover
A deeply serious novelist is subjected to ultimately tragic sufferings by his shamelessly uncooperative muse, who is given to distractions, sulks, and unexpected lapses in memory and who demands equal play for equal work
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"The novel seeks to explore the nature of reality and creativity, the alienations of art, the evolution of literature to its present self-conscious phase, the relationship between the sexes, and much more" (Martin Amis Observer)
"The only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner)
"John Fowles is an artist of great imaginative power" (Sunday Times)
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"The only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner)
"John Fowles is an artist of great imaginative power" (Sunday Times)
John Fowles' provocative and playful battle of the sexes available for the first time in Vintage Classics paperback
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- PublisherNew Amer Library
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0452254299
- ISBN 13 9780452254299
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