Imago Bird
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Dust jacket present, slightly worn/faded at edges with minor chipping; price clipped. Page Condition: Good, pages appear clean with minor yellowing. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact and firm. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A striking work of British literary fiction, Imago Bird is the third novel in Nicholas Mosley's celebrated Catastrophe Practice sequence, a series widely regarded as one of the most intellectually ambitious undertakings in postwar English literature. The novel centres on a group of young people in 1970s London navigating questions of identity, transformation, and political idealism, weaving together personal relationships with broader philosophical and social currents of the era. Mosley writes with a deliberately fragmented, self-aware style that challenges conventional narrative, demanding active engagement from the reader as characters wrestle with questions of free will, change, and meaning. Influenced by Mosley's own deep interest in existentialism and evolutionary theory, the title itself evokes metamorphosis — the imago being the final, adult stage of an insect's transformation — casting the entire narrative as a meditation on becoming. Rich, demanding, and rewarding, this is a novel that rewards careful, reflective reading.
Author: Nicholas Mosley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Dust jacket present, slightly worn/faded at edges with minor chipping; price clipped. Page Condition: Good, pages appear clean with minor yellowing. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact and firm. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A striking work of British literary fiction, Imago Bird is the third novel in Nicholas Mosley's celebrated Catastrophe Practice sequence, a series widely regarded as one of the most intellectually ambitious undertakings in postwar English literature. The novel centres on a group of young people in 1970s London navigating questions of identity, transformation, and political idealism, weaving together personal relationships with broader philosophical and social currents of the era. Mosley writes with a deliberately fragmented, self-aware style that challenges conventional narrative, demanding active engagement from the reader as characters wrestle with questions of free will, change, and meaning. Influenced by Mosley's own deep interest in existentialism and evolutionary theory, the title itself evokes metamorphosis — the imago being the final, adult stage of an insect's transformation — casting the entire narrative as a meditation on becoming. Rich, demanding, and rewarding, this is a novel that rewards careful, reflective reading.