Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition:
First Dalkey Archive edition.
Place of Publication:
Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1996.
Summary:
Natalie Natalia is Nicholas Mosley's brilliant examination of political life. It revolves around Anthony Greville, a conservative Member of Parliament who is tormented by his ambivalence toward his career, by his religious doubts, and by his adulterous affair with Natalia Jones, the enigmatic wife of a colleague. The course of their affair dramatizes love in its most creative and perilously destructive aspects, the two facets symbolized in the two names he has for his lover: "I sometimes called Natalia Natalie instead of Natalia", Greville says, "when she was the ravenous rather than the angelic angel....What Natalie said was often a code for what Natalia was meaning". Ranging in setting from England to Central Africa, the novel is a remarkable investigation of ethics, with fiction itself as an ethical activity.
Notes:
"Originally published by Hodder and Stoughton (London), 1971"--Title page verso.
ISBN:
1564780864
9781564780867
OCLC:
34114921
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