Transparent Things

Description:

"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."--Martin Amis.

subjects: Fiction,  Widowers,  Publishers and publishing,  Fiction in English,  Roman,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, psychological,  Widowers, fiction,  Publishers and publishing, fiction,  American literature

Places: United States