Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping her in his cellar in the belief that she will eventually come to love him. The story is narrated in turns by the young man and his captive, giving two opposing points of view.
Book Details
Format
hardcover
ISBN-10
0965058484
ISBN-13
9780965058483
Publication Date
Jan 1900
Item Weight
1.30 pounds
Length
10.00 inch
Width
6.00 inch
Height
1.00 inch
First Sentence
WHEN she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was right opposite the Town Hall Annexe.
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
