The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read
Jomier has reached the age of retirement. His children have grown up. He lives alone in London, embittered and humiliated after his wife, Tilly, had an affair and left him for Max, an uninhibited international banker. Years later he still mourns the death of his marriage, often trying to pinpoint when, and why, it all went wrong.
'Piers Paul Read is one of Britain's most intelligent and disturbing writers' New York Times Book Review 'Marvellously comic, superbly inventive.. one of the most arresting British novelists to have appeared in years' The Times 'Undoubtedly one of the most talented novelists of his generation' Francis King, Sunday Telegraph 'A storyteller of the first order, as refreshing as it is rare among the bedraggled ranks of contemporary novelists' Joseph Pearce, author of The Quest for Shakespeare
Piers Paul Read was born in Buckinghamshire and studied History at Cambridge University. His books include the novel Monk Dawson, for which he won a Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, and A Married Man which was dramatised for television in 1984 with Anthony Hopkins in the title role. A work of non-fiction, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was adapted into the 1993 film Alive. In 1988 he was awarded a James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel, A Season in the West. Piers Paul Read lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408805657 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408805650 |
| Title | The Misogynist |
| Author | Piers Paul Read |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2010-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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