Hopeful Monsters: A Novel - Softcover

Mosley, Nicholas

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9780679739296: Hopeful Monsters: A Novel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679739297 ISBN 13: 9780679739296

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1993

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Traces the relationship of Max, the English son of a scientist, and Eleanor, a German Jew caught up in the politics of the time during the period between the two world wars

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"A gigantic achievement that glows and grows long after it is put aside." - "Independent on Sunday" "An expansive and liberating adventure of tests, quests, miracles and coincidences--It stands as a well-weathered, very benign, widespreading kind of tree, drawing sustenance from the dark earth of a 20th-century experience, and allowing all kinds of unexpected illuminations to shine through." - "Observer" "A major novel--profound--frequently funny, sometimes painful, sometimes moving that asks fundamental questions about the nature of experience." - "The Scotsman"

About the Author

Born in 1923, Nicholas Mosley is married and has five children, and lives in London. Hopeful Monsters won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award (1990).

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