Daniel Martin
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A sweeping literary novel of self-examination and identity, Daniel Martin chronicles the life of a successful British screenwriter who, after being summoned to the deathbed of an old Oxford friend, is forced to confront the compromises, lost loves, and fractured ideals that have quietly shaped his existence. Fowles constructs a richly layered narrative that moves fluidly between Daniel's glamorous but hollow Hollywood present and the formative landscapes of his English past, weaving together memory, desire, and regret with extraordinary psychological depth. The novel argues, with quiet but insistent force, that authenticity — in art, in love, and in selfhood — demands a reckoning with everything one has chosen to abandon or ignore. Written in a tone that is both intellectually rigorous and deeply intimate, it stands as one of the most ambitious works of postwar British fiction, presenting a portrait of a man — and a generation — caught between the seductions of modernity and the pull of a more honest, rooted life.
Author: John Fowles
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Jonathan Cape
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A sweeping literary novel of self-examination and identity, Daniel Martin chronicles the life of a successful British screenwriter who, after being summoned to the deathbed of an old Oxford friend, is forced to confront the compromises, lost loves, and fractured ideals that have quietly shaped his existence. Fowles constructs a richly layered narrative that moves fluidly between Daniel's glamorous but hollow Hollywood present and the formative landscapes of his English past, weaving together memory, desire, and regret with extraordinary psychological depth. The novel argues, with quiet but insistent force, that authenticity — in art, in love, and in selfhood — demands a reckoning with everything one has chosen to abandon or ignore. Written in a tone that is both intellectually rigorous and deeply intimate, it stands as one of the most ambitious works of postwar British fiction, presenting a portrait of a man — and a generation — caught between the seductions of modernity and the pull of a more honest, rooted life.