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Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Nicholas Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because there they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace their paths are less clear. But what should inform them - custom? need? duty? ambition? desire? Forces pull in different directions - fidelity versus adventurousness, probity versus fun.
During the war, Mosley found himself having to combine fondness for his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, with the need to speak out against his politics. In times of peace, his love for his wife and children, too, seems riddled with paradoxes. How does caring not become a trap?
Nicholas Mosley was 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. His book Hopeful Monsters won 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 resides in London.
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