Catastrophe Practice
Nicholas Mosley
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Description for Catastrophe Practice
Paperback. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
In his recent novels--including his award-winning Hopeful Monsters--Nicholas Mosley has investigated the patterns that govern our mental and emotional lives and the possibilities that we have for change, and nowhere has he explored such themes with greater concentration than in Catastrophe Practice. A unique book whose characters and concerns are the basis for the other four novels of the Catastrophe Practice Series - Hopeful Monsters, Imago Bird, Judith, and Serpent-- Catastrophe Practice is remarkable both in its form (three plays with prefaces and a novella) and in its ability to convey the complexities of thought. Drawing upon catastrophe theory to ... Read more
In his recent novels--including his award-winning Hopeful Monsters--Nicholas Mosley has investigated the patterns that govern our mental and emotional lives and the possibilities that we have for change, and nowhere has he explored such themes with greater concentration than in Catastrophe Practice. A unique book whose characters and concerns are the basis for the other four novels of the Catastrophe Practice Series - Hopeful Monsters, Imago Bird, Judith, and Serpent-- Catastrophe Practice is remarkable both in its form (three plays with prefaces and a novella) and in its ability to convey the complexities of thought. Drawing upon catastrophe theory to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782526
SKU
V9781564782526
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99-15
About Nicholas Mosley
Born in London, Mosley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford and served in Italy during the Second World War, winning the Military Cross for bravery. He succeeded as 3rd Baron Ravensdale in 1966 and, on the death of his father on 3 December 1980, he also succeeded to the Baronetcy. His father, Sir Oswald Mosley, founded the British ... Read more
Reviews for Catastrophe Practice
"Mosley is that rare bird: an English writer whose imagination is genuinely inspired by intellectual conundrums."
Robert Nye, Guardian "Nicholas Mosley is a throwback, a modernist mastadon whose project for fiction surpasss in grandiosity that of any American writer."
Tom LeClair, Washington Post
Robert Nye, Guardian "Nicholas Mosley is a throwback, a modernist mastadon whose project for fiction surpasss in grandiosity that of any American writer."
Tom LeClair, Washington Post