Author

Publication

2007-03-01 - Dalkey Archive Press

Language

English

Word Count

54,500 words, Guess

Page Count

218 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL8662028M
  • ISBN-101564781496
  • ISBN-139781564781499
  • LibraryThing19303

Description

London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed—Aldous Huxley's *Antic Hay*. like Hemingway's *The Sun Also Rises*, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists—all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy. What the *New York Times* called “a delirium of sense enjoyment!”

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