by Brian Aldiss (Author)
The second volume in the acclaimed Squire Quartet.
Spanning fifty years and three continents - from pre-war Suffolk, to the Far East in the 1940s, to Oxford and America in the present day - Forgotten Life is a novel of immense scope, encompassing comedy and tragedy, joy and grief, as its three main characters try to work out the most difficult problem of all - the meaning of their own lives.
Brian says: `This novel, which in retrospect can be seen to have a similar ground plan to Non-Stop, written thirty years earlier, was more warmly received than any other Aldiss novel, not simply by its reviewers but by readers.'
Features a new introduction by the author.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 341
Publisher: The Friday Project
Published: 21 May 2012
ISBN 10: 000746116X
ISBN 13: 9780007461165
`Excited me more than anything else I've read this year.' ANTHONY BURGESS
`A long, handsome ingenious novel about war and peace, very funny, very sad, full of closely seen, closely thought detail, wise exotic and entertaining.' IRIS MURDOCH
The mid-life crisis, with its fumblings, fudgings and miraculous accidents of self-knowledge, has seldom been better portrayed'. OBSERVER
`Brian Aldiss works with such zest and gaiety.' NINA BAWDEN
`Full of goodies... funny, human, tough, irresistibly lively.' FINANCIAL TIMES
Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story `Criminal Record', which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.
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