Antic Hay
โ Scribed by Aldous Huxley
- Book ID
- 105277604
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Edition
- 2nd
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- England, Normal, Ill., England.
- ISBN-13
- 9781564781499
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โฆ Synopsis
London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!"
โฆ Subjects
England
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