9780333010020: The Sleep of Reason

Synopsis

New York. 1968. Charles Scribner's Sons. 22x15. 483p.

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Review

It contemplates the passing of time, the slippage of power, the assertion of a new generation and the painful vagaries of human nature. (Kirkus Reviews)

The book of his which I think is the most powerful, because it is so honest. (Peter Hitchens Daily Mail)

Book Description

The penultimate book in C. P. Snow's magnificent Strangers and Brothers sequence. Set between 1963 and 1964, it sees Lewis Eliot return to the provincial town of his childhood and become entangled in the aftermath of a terrible murder.

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