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The Hesperides Tree (British Literature Series)

By Mosley, Nicholas

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Reminiscent in theme and style to his Whitbread Award-winning Hopeful Monsters, Nicholas Mosley's The Hesperides Tree tells of a young man frustrated by the inability of his two chosen courses of study--biology and literature--to adequately define the world. Baffled by several life-shaping coincidences that seem to be part of life itself, he embarks on a physical and intellectual journey in search of a girl he fell in love with years earlier. This journey leads him to a deserted island off the coast of Ireland and, perhaps, to the mythical Garden of the Hesperides, home of the Tree of Life.

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ISBN
978-1-56478-267-0
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press


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Reviewed on April 1, 2001

Set in the late 1990s, Whitbread Award winner Mosely's (Children of Darkness and Light) new novel is the unusual and original coming-of-age tale of an unnamed 18-year-old narrator. The novel is built around a series of fantastic coincidences, inadequately explained by the narrator's scientific and humanistic education, that se...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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