All Souls
by:
Javier Marías (author)
At High Table in an Oxford College, the pretty, young tutor, Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching decolletage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a guest on this occasion. In due course, the two young people were...
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At High Table in an Oxford College, the pretty, young tutor, Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching decolletage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a guest on this occasion. In due course, the two young people were lovers, unbeknown to Clare's husband, Andif.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099448488 (0099448483)
Publish date: August 5th 1999
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Roman,
Spanish Literature,
Spain
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Sometimes you know from the very first words in a novel: I’m gonna’ like where this takes me. Now, as I start All Souls (and this review), I’ve read over 1600 pages penned by Marías, and he never fails to catch me up immediately and run with me. In this novel’s case, by the narrator’s distancing o...
I read this book in the right time and in the right place. As it was a present coming from a dear friend of mine, thumbs up for Giulia! But let's suppose that I crushed into "All Souls" just a couple of years ago when I was far from Oxford and completely unaware of going to settle up there in a few ...
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