The Collector - Couverture souple

Fowles, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330200747 ISBN 13 : 9780330200745

Editeur : Macmillan

Synopsis

From the author of THE MAGUS, a novel first published by Jonathan Cape in 1963. A withdrawn, unloved butterfly collector wins a fortune on the football pools, and this enables him to abduct a young art student and keep her in the cellar of his newly-bought home. She tries to understand her captor but becomes repulsed by his mentality.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Fredrick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables him to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he thinks the chloroform pad no more vicious than his butterfly net, and patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste that inhibit their love to break down in the limbo of their isolation. She, the creator, desperate for her freedom, tries to be understanding but cannot banish her contempt for everything anti-life that the collector stands for.

Quatrième de couverture

'Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power' Sunday Times

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor, and so gain her freedom.

See also: The French Lieutenant's Woman

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330200747
• ISBN 13: 9780330200745
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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