Hopeful Monsters
$48.94
- Paperback
604 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2009
Summary
Through a dialogue between two lovers, a young physicist in England and an anthropologist in Germany, Nicholas Mosely retells the history of Europe of the twenties and thirties. The destructive power and attraction of fascism and communism is unveiled and set against the changing relationship between man and science in the time of atomic power. Their story weaves together disparate strands of landscape to take the reader on a journey through Spain, London, Soviet Russia, North Africa and midd…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781906011116 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1906011117 |
| Author: | Nicholas Mosley |
| Publisher: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 604 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 638g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 135mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosely was born in London in 1923 and educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, in 1951. He has since published sixteen works of fiction, including the novels Accident, Impossible Object, and Hopeful Monsters, winner of the 1990 Whitbread Award. Mosely is also the author of several works of non fiction, most notably the authobiography Efforts at Truth and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosely, entitled Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale.
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