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The Hesperides Tree


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Reminiscent in theme and style to his Whitbread Award-winning Hopeful Monsters, Nicholas Mosley's The Hesperides Tree tells of a young man frustrated by the inability of his two chosen courses of study—biology and literature—to adequately define the world. Baffled by several life-shaping coincidences that seem to be part of life itself, he embarks on a physical and intellectual journey in search of a girl he fell in love with years earlier. This journey leads him to a deserted island off the coast of Ireland and, perhaps, to the mythical Garden of the Hesperides, home of the Tree of Life.

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ISBN-10 1-56478-267-0
ISBN-13 9781564782670
Publication Date Jul 2002
Nb of pages 320
Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5 in.

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Kirkus
A boldly imagined, intellectually challenging exploration of the moral and social (and, specifically, genetic) fallout of the past century's 'experiments' and excesses—and of the individual's resistance to absorbing its lessons and bearing its scars.

Library Journal
A novel of ideas in the best sense, this is a provocative meditation on the roles of chance, fate, and myth in our lives.

Times Literary Supplement
Engaging, intelligent, and engrossing. I was ravished by the full-throated lyricism of the island interlude . . . Nicholas Mosley is always dexterous, often sly, never whimsical or arbitrary.

Spectator
The novel's strength is in the eloquence of its ideas and in a prose style that is unusual, graceful and often poetic . . . The great thing about this book is watching Nicholas Mosley's remarkable thoughts in flight.

Washington Post
Dalkey Archive has in the English author Nicholas Mosley a throwback, a modernist mastodon whose project for fiction surpasses in grandiosity that of any American writer I know.

Spectator
Mosley is ingenious and cunning . . . Anybody who is serious about the state of English fiction should applaud Nicholas Mosley's audacity—his skill is unquestionable.



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