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Look at the Dark

Nicholas Mosley author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:16th Mar '06

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Look at the Dark cover

A retired academic and writer is becoming a media celebrity of sorts, appearing on various talk shows to voice his controversial views on human nature and war. While in New York to make such an appearance, he becomes the victim of a hit-and-run--set up by the CIA? the FBI? terrorists?--and ends up confined to a hospital bed. This forced inactivity allows him to reflect on his life--the work he has done, the women he has known--as various people from his life gather around him, including both his first and second wives. Reminiscing about his past while dealing with his present, the man begins to see his provocative ideas about fidelity, sin, and grace play themselves out in a virtuosic way that could only be conceived by Nicholas Mosley.

Like its narrator, this rather beautiful book, pitched somewhere between the phenomenologically insubstantial novels of Maurice Blanchot and the existential mask-play of Kundera's The Incredible Lightness of Being, smiles slightly creepily but offers no reply. ' -James Flint, The Guardian

ISBN: 9781564784070

Dimensions: 212mm x 146mm x 18mm

Weight: 290g

214 pages