A Garden of Trees Contributor(s): Mosley, Nicholas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564787184 ISBN-13: 9781564787187 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012003304 |
Series: British Literature |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.6" W x 8.1" (1.10 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Topical - Family - Topical - Friendship |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "When you have put your trust in shadows there is nothing that is real. Have you found this?" Returning to London from a trip to the West Indies, an aspiring writer encounters a bewitching trio of friends whose magic lies in their ability to turn any situation into fantasy. Previously out of place in the world, the narrator falls in love with the young brother-sister pair of Peter and Annabelle, as well as the older, more political Marius. Reality soon encroaches upon the foursome, however, in the form of Marius's ailing wife, forcing the narrator to confront the dark emptiness and fear at the heart of his friends' joie de vivre. In this, his second novel--written in the '50s and never before published--Nicholas Mosley weighs questions of responsibility and sacrifice against those of love and earthly desire, the spirit versus the flesh. |