Several Deceptions by Jane Stevenson
The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme- deception and self-deception, practised by or on the protagonists. Each story is told in prose of great assurance, narrated by a brilliantly distinctive voice. The characters include an Anglo-Italian Professor of Semiotics, undone by his own cleverness; an Irishwoman who becomes a novice in a Tibetan nunnery in Nepal; a house party of old university friends that is galvanised by a pugnacious newcomer into a demented, Buchanesque mission to restore their hostess's lost honour, and an international lawyer who takes to terrorism in pursuit of a theory. Several Deceptions is clever, funny, a little cruel. It introduces a writer of quite remarkable gifts.
Jane Stevenson is the author of a collection of novellas, Several Deceptions, and several novels, London Bridges, Astraea, The Pretender and The Empress of the Last Days.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224059398 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224059394 |
| Title | Several Deceptions |
| Author | Jane Stevenson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1999-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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