Ebony Tower, The

Author: Fowles, John

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 304

Release Date: 25-04-2006

model number: 373373

Part Number: 373373

Details: Product Description


The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued by the elderly artist's relationship with two beautiful young women. John Fowles reputation as a master storyteller was further advanced by this collection, which echoed themes and preoccupations from his other books.


Review


This is an immensely stimulating book, rich in imagery, sure in dialogue, profound in characterization, dazzling in its descriptive powers and constantly haunting with its Celtic rhythms and its bold, elegant design ―
The Times

This collection of five novellas confirms that in terms of technical resourcefulness and narrative skill he has few equals among the living novelists. The novella which gives the book its title strikes me as being the finest thing Fowles has written ―
Observer

In a manner worthy of Pirandello, John Fowles uses the conventional apparatus of the detective-story to explore the relationship between fact and fiction, reality and illusion, to masterly effect ―
Sunday Telegraph

Arresting...this collection impresses me as deeply as any of the novels which Fowles has published to date ―
Guardian

Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down ―
Financial Times


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: 9780099480518

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English