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Item Details
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CARDS OF IDENTITY
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| By: |
Nigel Dennis |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571320961 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571320967 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
17 July, 2014 |
| Description: |
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. |
| 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). |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber Finds |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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