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A Maggot

A Maggot

by JohnFowles (Author)

  • New

    Paperback 1996

    $13.20

  • Used

    Paperback 1991

    $3.42

  • Used

    Hardcover 1985

    $3.42
Synopsis

In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that "A Maggot" began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.

$13.20

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 07 Nov 1996
ISBN 10: 0099480417
ISBN 13: 9780099480419
Book Overview: 'The reader is carried headlong into a maze of violent death, bizarre sex, disguise and terror' Sunday Times

Media Reviews
A remarkable and brilliant work of fiction...the imaginative power of the novel is astounding, the technical virtuosity and structural daring equally so * The Times *
This altogether admirable novel serves, as all literature should, the forces of subversion. It is a worthy companion to The French Lieutenant's Woman, which does the same thing, but bolder in its experimentation and hence more notable as an artistic achievement -- Anthony Burgess * Observer *
Compelling and passionate fiction... Fowles's darting imagination skims across the landscape of two and a half centuries * Times Literary Supplement *
Brilliant and compelling...he deploys his usual seductive narrative gifts to great effect * Guardian *
Author Bio
John Fowles won international recognition with The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power. This reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works including The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa and A Maggot. John Fowles died in 2005.