Mantissa (Back Bay Books) - Softcover

Fowles, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316290270 ISBN 13: 9780316290272

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 1997

Synopsis

In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse.

About this title

About the Author:

John Fowles (1926-2005) was educated at Oxford and subsequently lectured in English at universities in Greece and the UK. The success of his first novel, The Collector, published in 1963, allowed him to devote all his time to writing. His books include the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and Daniel Martin. Fowles spent the last decades of his life on the southern coast of England in the small harbor town of Lyme Regis.

Review:

"The novel seeks to explore the nature of reality and creativity, the alienations of art, the evolution of literature to its present self-conscious phase, the relationship between the sexes, and much more" -- Martin Amis * Observer * "The only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of Tolstoy or James" -- John Gardner "John Fowles is an artist of great imaginative power" * Sunday Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0316290270
• ISBN 13: 9780316290272
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208