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Look at the Dark


Collection Coleman Dowell Literature Series

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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.

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ISBN-10 1-56478-407-X
ISBN-13 9781564784070
Publication Date Feb 2006
Nb of pages 214
Dimensions 5 x 8.5 in.

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Press Reviews

Sunday Herald
To judge by his latest, Look at the Dark, Nicholas Mosley is a really fine writer. Not only does he write well but he has a great deal to say. Which, after having already written 14 novels, is surely no mean feat.

Times (London)
The narrative is clear and engaging, the frequent passages of dialogue crisp and lively, the male characters (seen through the old man's eccentric sensibility) are more absurd than alarming and the female ones, naturally, lovable.



Quotations

One of the most compelling writers in the English language.
-Joyce Carol Oates

Mosley is the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas.
-Robert McFarlane

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