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Natalie Natalia
Nicholas Mosley
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Description for Natalie Natalia
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
"Natalie Natalia"?is Nicholas Mosley's brilliant examination of political life. It revolves around Anthony Greville, a conservative Member of Parliament who is tormented by his ambivalence toward his career, by his religious doubts, and by his adulterous affair with Natalia Jones, the enigmatic wife of a colleague.The course of their affair dramatizes love in its most creative and perilously destructive aspects, the two facets symbolized in the two names he has for his lover: "I sometimes called Natalia Natalie instead of Natalia," Greville says, "when she was the ravenous rather than the angelic angel... What Natalie said was often a code ... Read more
"Natalie Natalia"?is Nicholas Mosley's brilliant examination of political life. It revolves around Anthony Greville, a conservative Member of Parliament who is tormented by his ambivalence toward his career, by his religious doubts, and by his adulterous affair with Natalia Jones, the enigmatic wife of a colleague.The course of their affair dramatizes love in its most creative and perilously destructive aspects, the two facets symbolized in the two names he has for his lover: "I sometimes called Natalia Natalie instead of Natalia," Greville says, "when she was the ravenous rather than the angelic angel... What Natalie said was often a code ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564780867
SKU
V9781564780867
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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 Natalie Natalia
"A view of passion as both destructive and necessary has never been more eloquent than in Natalie Natalia."
Robert Scholes, Saturday Review "He has developed a remarkable, almost unique ability of making the reader feel almost totally involved in what is happening. Few writers can achieve this kind of spontaneity, where form and content fuse perfectly."
Guardian "The ... Read more
Robert Scholes, Saturday Review "He has developed a remarkable, almost unique ability of making the reader feel almost totally involved in what is happening. Few writers can achieve this kind of spontaneity, where form and content fuse perfectly."
Guardian "The ... Read more