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All Souls
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Series: Vintage International
HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0307950778
ISBN13: 9780307950772
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 23 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780307950772
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 23 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From one of the most important voices in world literature--and the award-winning author of The Infatuations--a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. - Javier MarÃas is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers. --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
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. MarÃas demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from one of the best contemporary writers (J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature).
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