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Wormholes

Essays and Occasional Writings

John Fowles author Jan Relf editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:7th Oct '99

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A rich and varied collection of essays and writings from the internationally-acclaimed author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman.

Here, for the first time, is a riveting collection of Fowles's fugitive and intensely personal writings composed sinced 1963, ranging from essays and literary criticism to commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs and musings.Here, for the first time, is a riveting collection of Fowles's fugitive and intensely personal writings composed sinced 1963, ranging from essays and literary criticism to commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs and musings. Wormholes is a delicious sampling of the various matters that have plagued, preoccupied, or delighted Fowles throughout his life; it is a rich mine of essays as art and a `geography' of the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists.

Fowles's mind is as lively, tangy and quirkily textured as Stilton * Observer *
A splendidly uplifting book -- Richard Mabey
Anyone familiar with books such as The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus will already know that Fowles is a perceptive and intelligent writer, but this collection shows him to be as fascinating and entertaining in his non-fiction as he is in his novels. Indeed, Wormholes is something of an embarassment of riches, there are so many marvellous things in here * Hampstead & Highgate Express *
John Fowles is a magnificent novelist who has written two masterpieces but who has a reluctance to give precise endings to his stories... In the wise and beautifully written essays and biographical pieces of Wormholes he indicates why this is so * Daily Telegraph *

ISBN: 9780099272724

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 31mm

Weight: 352g

512 pages