Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/11/2004
ISBN: 9780099478348
Length: 704 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 43mm x 129mm
Weight: 479g
RRP: £12.99
Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to reconcile with a dying friend, and also to visit his own forgotten past in an attempt to discover himself.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/11/2004
ISBN: 9780099478348
Length: 704 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 43mm x 129mm
Weight: 479g
RRP: £12.99
A work of imaginative energy and passionate honesty
An instant masterpiece. It is a tour de force of stamina and subtlety
A descriptive writer of great power
I find it disastrous to read any of John Fowles' books - once I pick one up, I cannot put it down so everything else gets ignored!
It is filled with beguiling dramatic set-pieces - scenes from the protagonist's Devon childhood, a romantic idyll with a neighboring farm girl, a gently satirical send-up of Hollywood hedonism, some marvelous travel-writing about Egypt and Syria... An old-fashioned novel in the sense that one can enter and live in it