| All Souls Contributor(s): Marķas, Javier (Author), Banville, John (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0307950778 ISBN-13: 9780307950772 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013498636 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.52 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply being at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Mar as demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story. |