The Fly
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.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Boards - good with some marks. Binding - tight. Clean copy.
A rare and quietly unsettling work of mid-twentieth-century fiction, The Fly presents a darkly intimate narrative centered on obsession, isolation, and the strange beauty found in the natural world. Richard Chopping — better known to many as the artist behind several iconic James Bond dust jackets — brings his meticulous eye for detail to this novel, crafting a story that chronicles a man's intense, almost pathological fixation on a single fly. The prose is precise and hypnotic, drawing the reader into a claustrophobic psychological space where the mundane becomes deeply strange. Chopping illustrates with unsettling clarity how obsession can distort perception and unravel the boundaries between the observer and the observed. A cult classic of British literature, it rewards patient readers with its singular vision and quietly disturbing atmosphere.
Author: Richard Chopping
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Natural history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Boards - good with some marks. Binding - tight. Clean copy.
A rare and quietly unsettling work of mid-twentieth-century fiction, The Fly presents a darkly intimate narrative centered on obsession, isolation, and the strange beauty found in the natural world. Richard Chopping — better known to many as the artist behind several iconic James Bond dust jackets — brings his meticulous eye for detail to this novel, crafting a story that chronicles a man's intense, almost pathological fixation on a single fly. The prose is precise and hypnotic, drawing the reader into a claustrophobic psychological space where the mundane becomes deeply strange. Chopping illustrates with unsettling clarity how obsession can distort perception and unravel the boundaries between the observer and the observed. A cult classic of British literature, it rewards patient readers with its singular vision and quietly disturbing atmosphere.