An edition of As it happened (2002)
As it happened
By David Storey
Publish Date
2002
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Language
eng
Pages
218
Description:
"Involuntary self-murder is a symptom of what Matthew Maddox, emeritus professor of the Drayburgh School of Fine Art, considers to be a cultural as well as a social malaise - his millennial summing-up of the century he has lived through. His children gone, his wife re-married, his attempt at suicide having failed, he is drawn remorselessly through a process of rehabilitation, a search for 'purpose' which will oblige him to reassess the dynamism of a century he assumes has failed." "Even a man divided from himself is not alone. Struggling for his future are Simone, his lover and former analyst; his revered mentor, Daniel Viklund; his brother Paul (avuncular City Banker) and reliable sister Sarah. But against him stands his past; and above all, Eric Taylor, once his brightest student and now a convicted murderer."--BOOK JACKET.
subjects: Middle-Earth (Imaginary place), Art teachers, Lord of the rings, the fellowship of the ring (Motion picture), Fantasy fiction, Suicidal behavior, Handbooks, manuals, Fiction, Lord of the rings, the two towers (Motion picture), Lord of the rings, the return of the king (Motion picture), Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, Middle earth (imaginary place), Fantasy films, history and criticism, Motion pictures, setting and scenery, Fiction, general, Motion pictures, united states