Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley

DESCRIPTION:

• Huxley's 'pacifist novel', considered by many to be one of his finest, the story of a man in crisis after a disastrous affair and the death of his best friend. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way to live. Eyeless in Gaza is considered by many to be Huxley's definitive work of fiction.

DETAILS:

ISBN: 9780099458173
AUTHOR: Aldous Huxley
BINDING: Paperback
PAGES: 528 pages
DIMENSIONS: 5.08 x 1.22 x 7.8 inches
PUBLISHER: VINTAGE (RAND)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles.