Synopses & Reviews
Novelist Miles Green wakes up in a hospital room with an acute case of amnesia. He doesn't care for the woman who introduces herself as his wife; he is, however, taken with Dr. Delfie, the officious female doctor assigned to his case. Patient and doctor pursue a treatment using an odd kind of therapy that leads to a provocative confrontation between the sexes.
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"The novel seeks to explore the nature of reality and creativity, the alienations of art, the evolution of literature to its present self-conscious phase, the relationship between the sexes, and much more." Martin Amis, Observer
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"The only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of Tolstoy or James." John Gardner, Saturday Review
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"Clever and wickedly funny." The Atlantic Monthly
About the Author
John Fowles's works of fiction include The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Mantissa, and A Maggot. He is also the author of The Aristos: A Self-Portrait of Ideas, Poems, Shipwreck, Islands, and The Enigma of Stonehenge.