A Book for All and None
$76.72
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2012
Summary
Raymond is a withdrawn Oxford don and Nietzsche expert who discovers love and life when he meets Beatrice, who is considerably younger than him and works on Virginia Woolf.
Walter is Beatrice’s alpha-male husband, a power-hungry, philandering construction mogul who makes suspicious deals in the Middle East. And around this captivating trio, there is the mystery of a rumoured link between Friedrich Nietzsche and Virginia Woolf…
Every single strand is fascinating and fully reali…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753828922 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753828928 |
| Author: | Dr Clare Morgan |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 178mm x 28mm |
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This intensely academic novel is stuffed to bursting with good things… Past and present are very neatly plaited together. - The Times
A formidable debut. - Independent on SundayA wonderfully constructed edifice; ideas, possibilities, emotions, dreams bounce and echo from one strand to another, creating a subtle meditation on the limitations of and the potential for love and transcendence. - Tim Pears, Oxford-based authorAbout The Author
Dr Clare Morgan
Clare Morgan is Director of the Master of Studies in Creative Writing at Oxford University. She gained her MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she worked with Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. Her stories have been widely anthologised and have been commissioned by BBC Radio 4. She lives in Oxford and Wales.
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