Author: Brian Martin
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£ 39.99
Date Available:
7 April 2006
Publisher: Macmillan New Writing
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North
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UK First Edition / First Printing. SIGNED & Dated prior to publication by the author. Macmillan New Writing DEBUT
This is a literary thriller, a psychological drama about good and evil that explores confused sexuality and describes the intricate game of love in the contemporary world. It exposes the lives of six people who attend a school in Oxford either as student or teacher. The narrator of the story, a middle-aged man of means, is almost as enigmatic as his subject, North, a strange, elegant, charismatic Anglo-American youth. The handsome, precocious North begins a three-way relationship between himself, a beautiful 27 year-old woman teacher, and a young married, but bisexual, head of Physics who is good-looking, athletic, and evangelically Christian. As the novel proceeds in various settings, Oxford, London, Ravello, Washington DC, a confidential intimacy evolves between the narrator and North and the suspense mounts as North reveals his plans for systematic seduction. The players in the game of love become entangled in sexual anarchy that accelerates the novel towards its decisive, cataclysmic climax. At the end there is an abiding mystery and an acute sense of potent evil. The reader is left wondering if there have been certain moral imperatives that have made the narrator tell less than the whole truth.
Brian Martin has waited too long to write his first book. He should give his vivid imagination another outing soon..Digby Durrant, The Spectator.
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- Cover Type Hardback
Publisher Macmillan New Writing
ISBN 0230000002
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