All Souls
Author(s): Javier Marias
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. Marias demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story."
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Vintage Books
- : Vintage Books
- : 0.236
- : 01 April 2013
- : 201mm X 130mm X 20mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 210
- : Paperback
- : Javier Marias
- : Margaret Jull Costa