Read Series: Catastrophe Practice
by Author Nicholas Mosley
Judith (1997)
Encompasses all the worst aspects of Mosley’s writing. Judith is a female character with the voice of an upper-class Cambridge philosophy professor who speaks (and thinks) in quasi-profound and lyrical phrases—representing reality is not Mosley’s agenda, however this narrative voice is beyond lud...
Catastrophe Practice (2001)
In his recent novels--including his award-winning Hopeful Monsters--Nicholas Mosley has investigated the patterns that govern our mental and emotional lives and the possibilities that we have for change, and nowhere has he explored such themes with greater concentration than in Catastrophe Practi...
Imago Bird (2000)
This vivid and strikingly witty novel examines the contradictions between the public face and the private experience. Nephew to the prime minister of England, eighteen-year-old Bert tries to make sense of the grown-up world around him, a colorful crowd of television personalities, politicians, yo...
Hopeful Monsters (2000)
Nothing at all like I had anticipated and the most pleasant literary surprise I've experienced since Iain Sinclair's Downriver. Incredibly precise and measured, thoughtful almost to the point of ponderousness, philosophically heavy and deft at the same time, working its peculiarly compulsive an...