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A Maggot
John Fowles
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Description for A Maggot
Paperback. A title that began as a vision the author 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. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers.
The year is 1736 and five travellers are journeying across Exmoor on horseback, their purpose unknown. One evening they stop at a village inn for some rest and, soon after, hear that a man has been hanged nearby and that another is missing. What follows is a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, rituals and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as the mystery swerves towards a startling vision at its centre.
'This altogether admirable novel serves, as all literature should, the forces of subversion' Anthony Burgess, Observer
'The reader is carried headlong into a maze of violent death, bizarre sex, disguise and terror' Sunday Times
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099480419
SKU
V9780099480419
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About John Fowles
John Fowles 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. This reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works including The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa and A Maggot. John Fowles died in 2005.
Reviews for A Maggot
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
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
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
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