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The magus
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- Book Synopsis
- At Villa Bourani, the host is charming and the stories are irresistible, but nothing is offered without a price. WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman adrift after Oxford and a failed love affair, takes a teaching post on the Greek island of Phraxos. What begins as escape soon becomes a far more unsettling encounter. At Bourani, a villa on the island, Nicholas meets Maurice Conchis, a cultivated and enigmatic recluse. Through stories, performances, seductions and staged mysteries, Conchis draws him into a psychological ordeal in which reality and illusion are almost impossible to separate. The island gives Nicholas the drama he has been half-wishing for, then strips away the safety of being merely amused by it. In Fowles's hands, this literary mystery becomes a disturbing study of performance, desire and the stories people tell in order to avoid themselves. 'A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig... Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits are on the bull's eye' Sunday Times
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780099478355
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics, (04 November 2004)
- Number of Pages
- 656
- Weight
- 532 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 130 x 38 mm
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