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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:A Compass Errorby Sybille Bedford
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In this companion novel to A Favourite of the Gods, seventeen-year-old Flavia, on her own in Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War, lives with the confidence and ardor of youth. She knows where she is going — to Oxford, where she will train for a career of public service and intellectual achievement — but she does not know herself. Hers is a beautiful but false self-image, born of ideas she holds about her parents, her dead and idolized English father and her glamorous Italian mother, Constanza. Only when she is caught up in an intrigue that is to determine her mother's fate does she begin to discover her own true nature — even as she loses the road beneath her feet, and the bearings of her moral compass. Review:"In spite of the characters' seeming to follow a predictable — an almost predestined — line, without benefit of redemption or even free will, A Compass Error is full of constantly surprising turns, and until the last chapter one is not sure how it will turn out. And one cares. A most original and brilliant tour de force." Harper's What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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