The Collector - Couverture souple

Fowles, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330309900 ISBN 13 : 9780330309905

Editeur : Picador, 1989

Synopsis

Written by the author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "Mantissa" and "The Magus", this is the story of a lonely young man whose sole interest is collecting butterflies - until he wins the pools - and then he begins collecting girls.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his 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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs.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: Picador
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330309900
• ISBN 13: 9780330309905
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible