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Item Details
Title:
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THE HORSE'S MOUTH
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By: |
Joyce Cary |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£10.82 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571280617 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571280612 |
Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
6 October, 2011 |
Series: |
First Trilogy |
Description: |
Presents a portrait of an artistic temperament. In this book, its protagonist, Gulley Gimson, is an impoverished painter who scorns conventional good behaviour. If a bad citizen, he is a good artist, so wholly preoccupied with his art that he is willing to endure any privation. For Gulley there is but one morality: to be a painter. |
Synopsis: |
Joyce Cary wrote two trilogies, or 'triptychs' as he later called them, and both are Faber Finds. The first comprises Herself Surprised (1941), To Be a Pilgrim (1942) and The Horse's Mouth (1944). The Horse's Mouth is a portrait of an artistic temperament. Its protagonist, Gulley Gimson, is an impoverished painter who scorns conventional good behaviour. If a bad citizen, he is a good artist, so wholly preoccupied with his art that he is willing to endure any privation. For Gulley there is but one morality: to be a painter. "Joyce Cary is an important and exciting writer...To use Tennyson's phrase, he is a Lord of Language ...if you like rich writing full of gusto and accurate original character drawing, you will get it from The Horse's Mouth". (John Betjeman, Daily Herald). |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Faber Finds |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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