Hopeful Monsters
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the turbulent intellectual and political landscape of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, Hopeful Monsters is a vast, ambitious novel that chronicles the intertwined lives of Max, a physicist, and Eleanor, an anthropologist, as they navigate a world convulsed by war, revolution, and radical scientific thought. Their love story unfolds across the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, the laboratories of Weimar Germany, and the deserts of North Africa, each setting a crucible in which the central question of the novel is tested: can human beings evolve — biologically, morally, and spiritually — in time to save themselves from destruction? Nicholas Mosley writes with a rare philosophical density, weaving together the ideas of Darwin, Wittgenstein, and quantum mechanics into a narrative that is as intellectually rigorous as it is emotionally searching. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 1990, the novel stands as the crowning achievement of Mosley's Catastrophe Practice sequence, illustrating his lifelong preoccupation with the gap between human consciousness and human behaviour. For readers willing to meet its considerable demands, Hopeful Monsters offers a singular reward: the unsettling, exhilarating possibility that transformation — however unlikely — remains perpetually within reach.
Author: Nicholas Mosley
Format: Paperback
Published: 1990, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the turbulent intellectual and political landscape of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, Hopeful Monsters is a vast, ambitious novel that chronicles the intertwined lives of Max, a physicist, and Eleanor, an anthropologist, as they navigate a world convulsed by war, revolution, and radical scientific thought. Their love story unfolds across the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, the laboratories of Weimar Germany, and the deserts of North Africa, each setting a crucible in which the central question of the novel is tested: can human beings evolve — biologically, morally, and spiritually — in time to save themselves from destruction? Nicholas Mosley writes with a rare philosophical density, weaving together the ideas of Darwin, Wittgenstein, and quantum mechanics into a narrative that is as intellectually rigorous as it is emotionally searching. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 1990, the novel stands as the crowning achievement of Mosley's Catastrophe Practice sequence, illustrating his lifelong preoccupation with the gap between human consciousness and human behaviour. For readers willing to meet its considerable demands, Hopeful Monsters offers a singular reward: the unsettling, exhilarating possibility that transformation — however unlikely — remains perpetually within reach.