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Item Details
Title:
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CARDS OF IDENTITY
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By: |
Nigel Dennis |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£14.00 |
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£12.60 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571259693 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571259694 |
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Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
18 February, 2010 |
Pages: |
304 |
Description: |
Features a satirical masterpiece - a long-empty country house is reopened by Captain Mallet, his wife, and his dashing son Beaufort. |
Synopsis: |
'Formerly, he thinks to himself, an artist took real people and transformed them into painted ones: how much finer and more satisfying is the modern method of assuming that people are not real at all, only self-painted, and of proceeding to make them real by giving them new selves based on the best-available theories of human nature...' In Nigel Dennis' 1955 novel - instantly acclaimed as a satirical masterpiece - a long-empty country house is reopened by Captain Mallet, his wife, and his dashing son Beaufort. Their task is to prepare for the annual summer conference of 'The Identity Club': a group of psychologists firmly of the view that people can be instructed as to who they really are and, consequently, persuaded to do well-nigh anything. "I have read no novel published during the last fifteen years with greater pleasure and admiration". (W.H. Auden, 1955). "One of the funniest, most intelligent and far-reaching pieces of satire". (Times). |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
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