A Maggot by John Fowles Paperback Book

Description: A Maggot by John Fowles 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, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the worlds most exceptional writers, in our new Fowles livery.An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the worlds 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, ObserverThe reader is carried headlong into a maze of violent death, bizarre sex, disguise and terror Sunday Times Notes The reader is carried headlong into a maze of violent death, bizarre sex, disguise and terror Sunday Times Back Cover The imaginative power of the novel is astounding, the technical virtuosity and structural daring equally so The Times In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he 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, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre. See also: The Magus Author Biography 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 Lieutenants Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa and A Maggot. John Fowles died in 2005. Review 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 Lieutenants Woman, which does the same thing, but bolder in its experimentation and hence more notable as an artistic achievement * Observer *Compelling and passionate fiction... Fowless 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 * Promotional Brilliant and compelling Guardian Kirkus US Review Fowles calls his new novel, which basically is homage to the philosophical underpinnings of Shakerism and to the moral narratives of Defoe, "a maggot": a 17th-century-style working-out of an obsessive theme. In length and relative linearity, the book is just that. The fictional kernel is small: the strange journey of an English lord, his deaf/dumb valet, and ex-whore maid and two other ancillaries that results in a scene of revelation enacted in a cave; then death, disappearance, and legal reconstruction of the happening. The lords father hires a lawyer - and most of the book is composed of this lawyers interrogatories with the surviving participants, namely the ex-whore, now named Rebecca and become a mystic (and the mother-to-be of Anne Lee, the founder of Shakerism). Conducted wholly in period English, these depositions have an eloquence and pith that are impressive. Less so are Fowles buttings-in in modern language, during which he comments from the vantage point of a later age on Rebeccas salvationism, its mixtures of pure feminism and communism and fervor. In the questions and answers of the lawyer and Rebecca, these ideas have drama, but when Fowles steps back to gloss them, they curl up ("In truth these two were set apart from each other not only by countless barriers of age, sex, class, education, native province and the rest, but by something far deeper still: by belonging to two very different halves of the human spirit, perhaps at root those, left and right, of the two hemispheres of the human brain"), and they are as pungent as commentary on educational TV. Though the dogged antiqueness of it all may put some readers off, its the very virtuoso power of the language - the ideas in context - that makes the novel interesting. Once Fowles dusts the ideas off and puts them plain in his own voice, they seem unremarkable. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Text A remarkable and brilliant work of fiction...the imaginative power of the novel is astounding, the technical virtuosity and structural daring equally so Review Quote A remarkable and brilliant work of fiction...the imaginative power of the novel is astounding, the technical virtuosity and structural daring equally so Promotional "Headline" Brilliant and compelling Guardian Details ISBN0099480417 Author John Fowles Pages 464 Year 1996 ISBN-10 0099480417 ISBN-13 9780099480419 Format Paperback Publication Date 1996-11-07 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Media Book Death 2005 Short Title MAGGOT Residence Lyme Regis, Dorset, ENK Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint Vintage Classics UK Release Date 1996-11-07 AU Release Date 1996-11-07 NZ Release Date 1996-11-07 Translator Robert Chandler Edited by Ana Sofia Ribeiro Birth 1970 Affiliation Research Scholar, Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications QC Alternative 9781409059431 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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