Mantissa
Author(s): John Fowles
Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-center is connected to sexual activity, and calls in the even shapelier Nurse Cory to assist with treatment...In the most unorthodox of hospital rooms we eavesdrop on the serious discourse, virulent abuse and hilarious mockery of the erotic guerrilla war that is Mantissa.
General Information
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- : CCV
- : Vintage Classics
- : 0.15
- : 01 November 2009
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : John Fowles
- : Paperback
- : 1-Oct
- : 823.914
- : 208
More About The Product
John Fowles' provocative and playful battle of the sexes available for the first time in Vintage Classics paperback
The only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of Tolstoy or James John Fowles is an artist of great imaginative power Sunday Times The novel seeks to explore the nature of reality and creativity, the alienations of art, the evolution of literature to its present self-conscious phase, the relationship between the sexes, and much more Observer
John Fowles was born in England in 1926 and educated at Bedford School and Oxford University. John Fowles won international recognition with his first published title, THE COLLECTOR (1963). He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works. John Fowles died in 2005.
