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Several Deceptions
Jane Stevenson
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Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has minor wear to edges of spine but remains very good
The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme- deception and self-deception, practised by or on the protagonists. Each story is told in prose of great assurance, narrated by a brilliantly distinctive voice. The characters include an Anglo-Italian Professor of Semiotics, undone by his own cleverness; an Irishwoman who becomes a novice in a Tibetan nunnery in Nepal; a house party of old university friends that is galvanised by a pugnacious newcomer into a demented, Buchanesque mission to restore their hostess's lost honour, and an international lawyer who takes to terrorism in pursuit of a theory. Several ... Read more is clever, funny, a little cruel. It introduces a writer of quite remarkable gifts. Show Less
The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme- deception and self-deception, practised by or on the protagonists. Each story is told in prose of great assurance, narrated by a brilliantly distinctive voice. The characters include an Anglo-Italian Professor of Semiotics, undone by his own cleverness; an Irishwoman who becomes a novice in a Tibetan nunnery in Nepal; a house party of old university friends that is galvanised by a pugnacious newcomer into a demented, Buchanesque mission to restore their hostess's lost honour, and an international lawyer who takes to terrorism in pursuit of a theory. Several ... Read more is clever, funny, a little cruel. It introduces a writer of quite remarkable gifts. Show Less
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224059398
SKU
KOC0025129
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jane Stevenson
Jane Stevenson is the author of a collection of novellas, Several Deceptions, and several novels, London Bridges, Astraea, The Pretender and The Empress of the Last Days.
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