Reminiscent in theme and style to his Whitbread Award-winning?"Hopeful Monsters," Nicholas Mosley's?"The Hesperides Tree"?tells of a young man frustrated by the inability of his two chosen courses of study--biology and literature--to adequately define the world. Baffled by several life-shaping coincidences that seem to be part of life itself, he embarks on a physical and intellectual journey in search of a girl he fell in love with years earlier. This journey leads him to a deserted island off the coast of Ireland and, perhaps, to the mythical Garden of the Hesperides, home of the Tree of Life.
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"A novel of ideas in the best sense, this is a provocative meditation on the roles of chance, fate, and myth in our lives." -- "Library Journal"
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. — One of Nicholas Mosley's most compelling and provocative novels, The Hesperides Tree draws on the themes explored in his Catastrophe Practice Series — the importance of myth and coincidence in our lives. A young man frustrated by the inability of either of his two chosen disciplines — biology and English — to articulate a complete view of the world leaves his university and embarks upon a quest to find the girl he fell in love with years before, and to understand the relationship among things. His journey leads him to a deserted island — home to a species of rapidly evolving birds — that may be the mythical Garden of the Hesperides, where the Tree of Life is thought to be. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781564782670