Several Deceptions

Stevenson, Jane

ISBN 10: 0224059394 / ISBN 13: 9780224059398

Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, Kent, United Kingdom, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Several Deceptions
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, Kent, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224059394
• ISBN 13: 9780224059398
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme- deception and self-deception, practised by or on the protagonists. Each story is told in prose of great assurance, narrated by a brilliantly distinctive voice. The characters include an Anglo-Italian Professor of Semiotics, undone by his own cleverness; an Irishwoman who becomes a novice in a Tibetan nunnery in Nepal; a house party of old university friends that is galvanised by a pugnacious newcomer into a demented, Buchanesque mission to restore their hostess's lost honour, and an international lawyer who takes to terrorism in pursuit of a theory. Several Deceptions is clever, funny, a little cruel. It introduces a writer of quite remarkable gifts.

About the Author

Jane Stevenson is the author of a collection of novellas, Several Deceptions, and several novels, London Bridges, Astraea, The Pretender and The Empress of the Last Days.