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.
All Souls (Vintage International)
Javier Marías
$17.00
- SKU:
- 9780307950772
- UPC:
- 9780307950772
- Gift wrapping:
- Options available
- Published by:
- Vintage
- Pub date:
- 04/23/2013
- Binding type:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 209
- ISBN:
- 9780307950772