Point Counter Point - Brossura

Huxley, Aldous

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099458195 ISBN 13: 9780099458197

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2004

Riassunto

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW

The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds himself drawn to the dangerous political charm of Everard. As they all engage in dazzling and witty conversation, the din of the age - its ideas and idiocies - grows deafening.

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Recensione:

"Huxley's style is at once dry and rich, intellectual and sensuous, scholarly and romantic. Point Counter Point is extremely funny with passages of rich and gorgeous farce" (Observer)

"As a piece of satire, often brilliant, sometimes wise, Point Counter Point is a monstrous exposure of a society which confuses pleasure with happiness, sensation with sensibility, mood with opinion, opinion with conviction and self with God" (Guardian)

Descrizione del libro:

Wickedly accurate portraits of Huxley's literary contemporaries in this novel of high-society misbehaviour

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099458195
• ISBN 13: 9780099458197
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 592