All Souls
$30.33
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2012
Summary
Javier Marías’s darkly humorous Oxford novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics.
The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare’s husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford, ‘one of t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141389240 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141389249 |
| Author: | Javier Marías |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Probably the wittiest novel set in British academia since David Lodge’s Changing Places
A dazzling example of the Oxford novel, with all the ingenuity and the humour and the nostalgia we could hope for * The Times Literary Supplement *Probably the wittiest novel set in British academia since David Lodge’s Changing Places * Daily Mail *An intelligent and well written book with exceptionally funny set pieces * The Indepdent on Sunday *
About The Author
Javier Marías
Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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