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All Souls (Vintage International) Reprint edition
Javier Marias
All Souls (Vintage International) Reprint edition
Javier Marias
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. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 23, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780307950772 |
Publishers | Vintage |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 130 × 201 × 20 mm · 235 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | John Banville |
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