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Serpent


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Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada—the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest and popular on such a subject can be made, and, while en route to the production site (Jason, producers and stars in first class—his wife and child in tourist), a dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art, and the world around him in several different ways at once.

Details

Format Hardcover
ISBN-10 0-91658349-X
ISBN-13 978-0-91658349-1
Publication Date Jan 1990
Nb of pages 192
Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5 in.

Format Paperback
ISBN-10 1-56478-244-1
ISBN-13 9781564782441
Publication Date Jan 1990
Nb of pages 192
Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5 in.

Reviews

Press Reviews

The Listener
Mosley's novel tackles intelligently the difficulty of communicating the complex.

Chicago Tribune
The series of five fictions called 'Catastrophe Practice' may be one of the most important extended literary projects of this century, on a level with the multivolume universes created by Proust, Anthony Powell, Lawrence Durrell and John Updike.

Vogue
Engrossing, interesting, highly complex, at times suddenly flat, Serpent remains part of a serious enquiry into complex issues of art and life; and we don't get enough of this in the often light world of the contemporary novel.

Observer
Nicholas Mosley's Serpent keeps up its author's diligent and attractive investment in the making of fictions that are really about the making of fiction . . . The difficulties of modernist fiction are deliberate ones and if anyone can make them approachable, Nicholas Mosley can.

Saturday Review
Nicholas Mosley is a brilliant novelist who has received nothing like the recognition he deserves—either at home in England or in this country . . . One can only hope that Mosley's reputation will someday be commensurate with the quality of his fiction.

Kirkus
An exhilarating high-modernist novel of ideas.

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