Nicholas Mosley, Author . Dalkey Archive $13.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-56478-267-0
Mosley (Hopeful Monster) is known as a novelist of ideas, and his latest effort takes on evolution, chance, God and the Internet. An unnamed young man, 18 at the start of the novel, goes in 1998 with his father, a director of TV documentaries, and...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author . Dalkey Archive $14.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-56478-291-5
Like the deus absconditus of Pascal, Maurice Rotblatt is more present in his absence: the TV personality, psychologist and mystic, whom "admirers occasionally described... as Christ-like" disappeared in the early '90s in Beirut. Rumors...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author . Dalkey Archive $34.95 (222p) ISBN 978-1-56478-360-8
This collection largely comprises book reviews and also features personal and philosophical essays published here for the first time. British experimental novelist Mosley (Hopeful Monsters
) writes trenchantly on Nietzsche, Russell, Keynes, Trotsky,
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Nicholas Mosley, Author . Dalkey Archive $13.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-56478-407-0
Mosley won the Whitbread Prize for Hopeful Monsters
(1990) and has written 25 other works of fiction and nonfiction centering on philosophical quandaries, political instabilities and religious impasses. This time out, an unnamed retired Oxford...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author . Dalkey Archive $13.95 (190p) ISBN 978-1-56478-539-8
This slim yet largely torturous memoir covers Whitbread winner Mosley's two marriages totaling almost 60 years, several love affairs, a religious crisis and much else. Now wheelchair-bound and in his 80s, the novelist and screenwriter delves...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author . Dalkey Archive $13.95 (199p) ISBN 978-1-56478-540-4
English novelist Mosley (Hopeful Monsters
) explores the nature of free will in this playful but often frustrating allegory of God’s exasperation with the humans he created. In the Garden of Eden, the Old Man must figure out how to eject his...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-916583-36-1
Bert, the precocious 18-year-old narrator of this inventive, wickedly amusing coming-of-age novel, comforts his alcoholic Aunt Mavis (an eccentric who drinks in the nude), makes love to his Trotskyite girlfriend in the afternoons and tells his...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916583-49-1
Jason, the protagonist of this muddled novel of ideas, is a scriptwriter doing a movie about Masada, the desert fortress where, according to the account of the Jewish historian Josephus, Jewish rebels in 73 A.D. committed mass suicide rather than...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-916583-69-9
This Pinteresque third novel based on the characters in Mosley's earlier Catastrophe Practice takes the form of confessional letters written by Judith, a young actress on the fringe of English high society. Through Desmond, a journalist at a...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Dalkey Archive Press $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916583-77-4
A British actress flees to India following a sadistic relationship and a friend's death. per MC: part of a quintet of novels, that last of which won the Whitbread Award and has been very well reviewed here (Hopeful Monsters).../again, great...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Dalkey Archive Press $22.95 (345p) ISBN 978-1-56478-075-1
Nicholas Mosley is the son of Oswald Mosley, the fiery leader of the separatist union movement in England who was imprisoned for opposing WWII. This heavy cultural heritage may account for the odd mix of British upper-class bohemianism and...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Dalkey Archive Press $12.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56478-152-9
A literary mystery centered on the politically motivated kidnapping of a small girl. (July)
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Dalkey Archive Press $13.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-56478-151-2
""If we are to survive in the environment we have made for ourselves, may we have to be monstrous enough to greet our predicament?"" The opening sentence of Mosley's Whitbread Award winner Hopeful Monsters is just as applicable to this alternately...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Dalkey Archive Press $27.5 (596p) ISBN 978-0-916583-75-0
Sir Oswald Mosley (1896-1980) organized and led the British Union of Fascists during the 1930s and is remembered for his campaigns directed against the Jews. He and his wife, the former Diana Mitford, a friend of Hitler, were interned by the British
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Dalkey Archive Press $21.95 (550p) ISBN 978-0-916583-85-9
Hopeful monsters? ``They are the things born perhaps slightly before their time; when it's not known if the environment is quite ready for them,'' explains Max Ackermann, the Cambridge-born physicist whose exchange of letters and shared...
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Nicholas Mosley, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (551p) ISBN 978-0-679-73929-6
Mosley's perfectly realized novel of ideas explores the social and scientific thought of the 20th century by tracing the peregrinations of a physicist and his lover. (Feb.)
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