The Ebony Tower
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:3rd Apr '97
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A collection of novellas which are perfect examples of Fowles' rich, dazzling, masterly style
The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued by the elderly artist's relationship with two beautiful young women.
An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers.
A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace.
Written with stylistic innovation, this sequence of novellas exploring the nature of art echoes the themes and preoccupations of Fowles' earlier work and cements his position as a master storyteller.
'Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down'Financial Times
This is an immensely stimulating book, rich in imagery, sure in dialogue, profound in characterization, dazzling in its descriptive powers and constantly haunting with its Celtic rhythms and its bold, elegant design * The Times *
This collection of five novellas confirms that in terms of technical resourcefulness and narrative skill he has few equals among the living novelists. The novella which gives the book its title strikes me as being the finest thing Fowles has written * Observer *
In a manner worthy of Pirandello, John Fowles uses the conventional apparatus of the detective-story to explore the relationship between fact and fiction, reality and illusion, to masterly effect * Sunday Telegraph *
Arresting...this collection impresses me as deeply as any of the novels which Fowles has published to date * Guardian *
Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down * Financial Times *
ISBN: 9780099480518
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 18mm
Weight: 215g
304 pages