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Impossible Object

Nicholas Mosley

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#2833 of 8,085 books · #1302 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1969).

"The object of life is impossible; one cuts out fabrication and creates reality. A mirror is held to the back of the head and one's hand has to move the opposite way from what was intended." In these closing lines from Impossible Object, one has embodied both Nicholas Mosley's subject of love and imagination, as well as his unmatched lyric style. In eight carefully connected stories that are joined by introspective interludes on related subjects, the author pursues the notion, through the lives of a couple seen by different narrators, that "those who like unhappy ends can have them, and those who don't will have to look for them."

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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN-13
9781628975338
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Love and imaginationNarrative structure and perspectiveRelationships

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