Publication

1985-04-01 - Dell

Language

English

Word Count

168,000 words, Guess

Page Count

672 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL7520522M
  • ISBN-139780440351627
  • ISBN-100440351626
  • OCLC Control Numbermagus00john
  • Goodreads939870
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  • LibraryThing7923

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  • LCC

Description

A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a teacher at a private school on a small Greek island. Bored and lonely he spends his free hours wandering alone until he meets a wealthy and mysterious neighbour. Soon he finds himself a victim of this man’s increasingly bizarre psychological games and obsessed with a young woman who may or may not be a willing participant in these games.

First Sentence

I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents,both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.

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