Look at the Dark (Coleman Dowell British Literature) - Softcover

Mosley, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156478407X ISBN 13: 9781564784070

Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Unusual book

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"Mosley is the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas."

Like its narrator, this rather beautiful book, pitched somewhere between the phenomenologically insubstantial novels of Maurice Blanchot and the existential mask-play of Kundera's The Incredible Lightness of Being, smiles slightly creepily but offers no reply. ' -James Flint, The Guardian

Reseña del editor

A retired academic and writer becomes a media celebrity, appearing on talk shows to voice his controversial views on human nature and the state of the world ("Of course the FBI do not want to discover actual bombers! They want to feel free to lock up anyone they choose!"). While in New York to make an appearance on televison, he is the victim of a hit-and-run accident - arranged by the government? terrorists? - and ends up confined to hospital bed. This forced inactivity allows him time to reflect - on the work he has done, the women he has known - as various figures from his life, including both his first and second wives, gather around him. Dredging up long-buried memories while trying to make sense of the here and now, the narrator begins to see his provocative ideas about infidelity, sin, and grace play themselves out in his own life.

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• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 156478407X
• ISBN 13: 9781564784070
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214