A Maggot

Author: Fowles, John

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 464

Release Date: 07-11-1996

Part Number: 1

Details: Product Description
In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that
A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.
Review
A remarkable and brilliant work of fiction...the imaginative power of the novel is astounding, the technical virtuosity and structural daring equally so ―
The Times

This altogether admirable novel serves, as all literature should, the forces of subversion. It is a worthy companion to
The French Lieutenant's Woman, which does the same thing, but bolder in its experimentation and hence more notable as an artistic achievement -- Anthony Burgess ―
Observer

Compelling and passionate fiction... Fowles's darting imagination skims across the landscape of two and a half centuries ―
Times Literary Supplement

Brilliant and compelling...he deploys his usual seductive narrative gifts to great effect ―
Guardian
About the Author
John Fowles was born in 1926. He won international recognition with
The Collector, his first published title, in 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:
The Aristos,
The Magus,
The French Lieutenant's Woman,
The Ebony Tower,
Daniel Martin,
Mantissa, and
A Maggot. John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in 2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the first in 2003, the second in 2006.

EAN: 9780099480419

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.0 x 1.3 inches

Languages: english