Synopses & Reviews
Described as a “truly remarkable book” and “a wonderful and beautiful piece of writing,” The Glimpse describes events after wealthy music critic Morrice Loring suffers a heart attack, brought on by the discovery of his wife Inez’s deceit. Bennett deals imaginatively with what is essentially Loring’s out-of-body experience in seeing what lies beyond human life and sight.
About the Author
Enoch Arnold Bennett, the son of a solicitor, was born in Hanley, which is in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. He was initially employed by his father, a solicitor, and at age twenty-one moved to London, initially to again work as a solicitor’s clerk. However, he soon turned to writing popular serial fiction and editing a women’s magazine. After publication of many articles and stories in serial form, his first novel A Man From the North was published in 1898. This novel was received with critical acclaim and Bennett became a full-time professional writer and moved to Paris where he became a man of cosmopolitan and discerning tastes. During the First World War, Arnold Bennett became director of propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information at the behest of Lord Beaverbrook, whose experiences during the First World War were to later inspire Bennett to write the novel Lord Raingo. At the end of the war, he was offered a knighthood, but refused it.