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Cary's last novel (he was working on it when he died in 1957) is about the power of religion and the press. Its galaxy of characters includes the faith-healer Preedy, the journalist Hooper and Alice Rodker who, seduced by Preedy, threatens to denounce him.
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There is no need to say that everyone who reads novels should read Joyce Cary's last book, everyone will. -- The Tribune
About the Author
Joyce Cary was born in 1888 into an old Anglo-Irish family and educated at Clifton. He studied art, first in Edinburgh and then in Paris, before going up to Trinity College, Oxford, in 1909 to read law. On coming down he served as a Red Cross orderly in the Balkan War of 1912-13, the inspiration for Memoir of the Bobotes, before joining the Nigerian Political Service.
He served in the Nigeria Regiment during the First World War, was wounded while fighting in the Cameroons, and returned to civil duty in Nigeria in 1917 as a district officer. His time in Africa provided the inspiration for his first four novels. Though he settled in Oxford as a full-time writer in 1920, it was not until 1932 that his first book was published. At the time of his death in 1957, he was recognised as one of the leading novelists in the world.
Cary is probably best known as a novelist and especially for Mister Johnson and ‘The First Triptych’ (Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse’s Mouth) in which the three main protagonists narrate their interlocking experiences and reveal their contrasting personalities. However he was also a fine short story writer, essayist and poet.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0140081968
- ISBN 13 9780140081961
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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