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Description for Imago Bird
Paperback. Series: British Literature Series. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 454.
This vivid and strikingly witty novel examines the contradictions between the public face and the private experience. Nephew to the prime minister of England, eighteen-year-old Bert tries to make sense of the grown-up world around him, a colorful crowd of television personalities, politicians, young Trotskyites, pop stars, and eccentric relatives. With the help of his laconic psychoanalyst, Bert questions the relation between exterior and interior reality, while Mosley himself questions art's ability to convey these different realities. Both Bert and Mosley triumph over these challenges by the end of this engaging and innovative novel.
This vivid and strikingly witty novel examines the contradictions between the public face and the private experience. Nephew to the prime minister of England, eighteen-year-old Bert tries to make sense of the grown-up world around him, a colorful crowd of television personalities, politicians, young Trotskyites, pop stars, and eccentric relatives. With the help of his laconic psychoanalyst, Bert questions the relation between exterior and interior reality, while Mosley himself questions art's ability to convey these different realities. Both Bert and Mosley triumph over these challenges by the end of this engaging and innovative novel.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Series
British Literature Series
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782434
SKU
V9781564782434
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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 Imago Bird
"Mosley gets all of it
psychoanalysis, youthful sex, and politics
exactly and hilariously right. He is ingenious and cunning... Anybody who is serious about the state of English fiction should applaud Nicholas Mosley's audacityhis skill is unquestionable."
Frank Rudman, Spectator "Mosley has started one of the very few genuinely experimental projects in modern English writing; whole others cling to pessimism as ... Read more
psychoanalysis, youthful sex, and politics
exactly and hilariously right. He is ingenious and cunning... Anybody who is serious about the state of English fiction should applaud Nicholas Mosley's audacityhis skill is unquestionable."
Frank Rudman, Spectator "Mosley has started one of the very few genuinely experimental projects in modern English writing; whole others cling to pessimism as ... Read more