- Fiction, Screenwriters, British, Motion picture industry
Daniel Martin's (1977) eponymous protagonist returns to England after a sojourn in Hollywood -- and sets out to rectify the sins and omissions of his past. The book covers three decades and is very much about being English with a lot of typical English banter.
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Contemplative, prestige, classical in form and earnest.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Fowles
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 674
- Publisher
- Makhaon, Picador, Cape
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Russian, Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780099478348
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“WHOLE SIGHT; OR ALL THE REST IS DESOLATION.”
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
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