**Discover John Fowles' compelling classic first novel** **** **'Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones'_Sunday Times_** Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful
Daniel Martin (Vintage Fowles)
β Scribed by Fowles, John
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 452 KB
- Series
- Vintage Fowles
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 009947834X
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β¦ Synopsis
Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to reconcile with a dying friend, and also to visit his own forgotten past in an attempt to discover himself.
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