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Mantissa
Mantissa
Author: John Fowles
Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-centre is connected to sexual activity, and calls in the even shapelier Nurse Cory to assist with treatment... In...  more »
ISBN: 401118
Publication Date: 1982
Pages: 196
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Publisher: New American Library
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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John Fowles' most startlingly imaginative work to date. A teasingly enigmatic diaolgue of words and flesh. A slyly dazzling exposition of connections made and missed, of postures assumed and abandoned. It is a virtuoso performance by a great contemporary storyteller.
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