Flesh - Softcover

Brophy, Brigid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747405794 ISBN 13: 9780747405795

Publisher: Time Warner Books UK, 1990

Synopsis

A young man suffers pain from beauty and is particularly affected by the beauty of Rubens's painting. His relationship as pupil of an experienced woman goes wrong as he begins to exceed his teacher, first on the dance floor and then in bed. The author has also written "The Snow Ball".

About this title

About the Author:

Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) was an acclaimed novelist, essayist, critic and campaigner. Her fiction included Hackenfeller's Ape (1953), The King of a Rainy Country (1956), Flesh (1962), The Finishing Touch (1963), The Snow Ball (1964), In Transit (1969), The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl (1971) and Palace without Chairs (1978). Her non-fiction included Black Ship to Hell (1962), Mozart the Dramatist (1964), two books about Aubrey Beardsley - Black and White (1968) and Beardsley and His World (1976), and Prancing Novelist: In Praise Of Ronald Firbank (1973). In 1954 she married the art historian Michael Levey (later the director of the British National Gallery from 1973-1987, knighted in 1981). The couple had one daughter, Kate. Brophy was a noted campaigner on several platforms, in particular her fight to establish an authors' Public Lending Right and her vice-presidency of the National Anti-Vivisection Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Time Warner Books UK
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0747405794
• ISBN 13: 9780747405795
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160