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AccidentAuthor: Nicholas Mosley British Literature Series November 1985 198 pages, 5.5 x 8 Paperback, 0-916583-11-2 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $9.56—20% OFF! 
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Book Description
Accident, Nicholas Mosley's brilliantly conceived and efficiently structured novel about Oxford University and environs, is a prose poem about marriage and infidelity, as well as the relationship between writing and existence, imagination and action. It is a study of the games academics play both with their students and with themselves, on campus and off, in bed or on the cricket fields or baronial halls of the landed gentry. By probing the mind of one philosopher-don, Stephen, who has second thoughts about what constitutes an "accident," Mosley gives us an unforgettable view of life at the top or tip of the academic heights, in addition to a moving story of love and betrayal.About the Author
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Nicholas Mosley was born in London on June 25, 1923 and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, in 1951. His book Hopeful Monsters won the 1990 Whitbread Award. Mosley is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most notably the autobiography Efforts at Truth and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, entitled Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale. He resides in London. |
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Praise
"A most brilliant and singular piece of work."—Harold Pinter"[A] fascinating and original novel. . . . Technically, Accident is remarkable."—Times Literary Supplement
"Nicholas Mosley's major theme is 'the public face and the private helplessness.' He writes particularly well the prose of shock, of the dead, small hours: and he also writes, as few can, of the pain and purpose of marriage."—Sunday Times (London)
"Original in texture, universal in import. . . . Accident evokes a sense of what it is to be its central character: a Prufrock man adrift in the 1960s."—New York Times Book Review
"[A] first-rate experimental novelist. . . . In an age of so much successful 'light fiction,' he's a special taste, the kind of writer whose books stick in your mind for weeks after you've finished them."—San Francisco Chronicle
More Information
Also by Nicholas Mosley:Assassins
Catastrophe Practice
Children of Darkness and Light
Efforts at Truth: An Autobiography
Experience and Religion
God's Hazard
Hopeful Monsters
Imago Bird
Impossible Object
Inventing God
Judith
Look at the Dark
Natalie Natalia
Paradoxes of Peace, or The Presence of Infinity
Serpent
The Hesperides Tree
The Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades
Time at War