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Through the lives of a couple observed by different narrators, these eight interconnected stories explore the notion that life can never be realized, except in recognition of the impossibility of attaining it. By the author of "Hopeful Monsters".
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"Mosley must be one of the most compelling writers in the English language today." --Joyce Carol Oates
"Mosley's very special talent is for describing the sensations experienced within a cocoon of dismay and terror." --Sunday Times
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"Mosley's very special talent is for describing the sensations experienced within a cocoon of dismay and terror." --Sunday Times
Nicholas Mosley as born in London on June 25, 1923 and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, in 1951. Since then, he has published sixteen works of fiction, including the novels Accident, Impossible Object, and Hopeful Monsters, winner of the 1990 Whitbread Award. Mosley is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most notably the autobiography Efforts at Truth and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, entitled Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale. He currently resides in London, where he is working on a nonfiction study of war and peace.
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- PublisherMinerva
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0749398558
- ISBN 13 9780749398552
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages244
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