Hopeful Monsters: A Novel

Mosley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679739297 ISBN 13: 9780679739296

Publisher: Arrow, 1993

Traces the relationship of Max, the English son of a scientist, and Eleanor, a German Jew caught up in the politics of the time during the period between the two world wars

Review:

"A gigantic achievement that glows and grows long after it is put aside." - "Independent on Sunday" "An expansive and liberating adventure of tests, quests, miracles and coincidences--It stands as a well-weathered, very benign, widespreading kind of tree, drawing sustenance from the dark earth of a 20th-century experience, and allowing all kinds of unexpected illuminations to shine through." - "Observer" "A major novel--profound--frequently funny, sometimes painful, sometimes moving that asks fundamental questions about the nature of experience." - "The Scotsman"

About the Author:

Born in 1923, Nicholas Mosley is married and has five children, and lives in London. Hopeful Monsters won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award (1990).