Natalie Natalia / Nicholas Mosley.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Mosley, Nicholas, 1923-2017.

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• British literature series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Politicians--Fiction.
• Politicians.
• England.
• Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
• Man-woman relationships.
• England--Fiction.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Political fiction.

Penn Provenance:

• 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