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Hopeful Monsters
Nicholas Mosley
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Description for Hopeful Monsters
Paperback. Through a dialogue between two lovers, this book retells the history of Europe of the twenties and thirties. It weaves together disparate strands of landscape to take the reader on a journey through Spain, London, Soviet Russia, North Africa and middle Europe. Num Pages: 604 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 151 x 30. Weight in Grams: 652.
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 middle Europe. Simultaneously taking us through a new intellectual landscape from the new scenes of physics, biology, anthropology and psychology. 'A novel ... Read more
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 middle Europe. Simultaneously taking us through a new intellectual landscape from the new scenes of physics, biology, anthropology and psychology. 'A novel ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
604
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
604
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906011116
SKU
V9781906011116
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About 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 ... Read more
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