Description for Serpent
Paperback. Series: British Literature Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada--the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest and popular on such a subject can be made, and, while en route to the production site (Jason, producers and stars in first class--his wife and child in tourist), a dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art, and the world around him in several different ways at once.
Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada--the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest and popular on such a subject can be made, and, while en route to the production site (Jason, producers and stars in first class--his wife and child in tourist), a dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art, and the world around him in several different ways at once.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
British Literature Series
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782441
SKU
V9781564782441
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Ref
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 Serpent
"An exhilerating high-modernist novel of ideas."
Kirkus "Nicholas Mosley is a brilliant novelist who has received nothing like the attention he deserves."
Robert Scholes, Saturday Review "Serpent is an engrossing, if not an explosively original book."
Boston Review
Kirkus "Nicholas Mosley is a brilliant novelist who has received nothing like the attention he deserves."
Robert Scholes, Saturday Review "Serpent is an engrossing, if not an explosively original book."
Boston Review