The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme: deception and self-deception, practised by or on the protagonists. Each story is told in prose of great assurance, narrated by a brilliantly distinctive voice. The characters include an Anglo-Italian Professor of Semiotics, undone by his own cleverness; an Irishwoman who becomes a novice in a Tibetan nunnery in Nepal; a house party of old university friends that is galvanised by a pugnacious newcomer into a demented Buchanesque mission to restore their hostess's lost honour, and an international lawyer who takes to terrorism in pursuit of a theory. SEVERAL DECEPTIONS is clever, funny, a little cruel. It introduces a writer of quite remarkable gifts.

Several Deceptions

Literature & Fiction

Jane Stevenson

Contemporary

Vintage

Good Women

Vintage Books

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: November 2008 Pages: 512 in Publisher: Pimlico Edward Burra never followed the fashion: in the thirties. when modern art was dominated by abstraction and landscape. he painted people; in the sixties. when landscape was completely out of fashion. he started to find it interesting. His life was an unusual one: profoundly disabled. he lived with his parents. and was in constant pain. Only when he was painting could he forget his body. At the same time he was a man with a rich and full life. He was a letter-writer of genius. writing every afternoon to a wide circle of friends. His letters are camp. witty. full of the energy and delight in life which he could not express physically. Inventive. entertaining. and extraordinarily original. his writing expresses a man who combined profound personal loyalty with distaste for any kind of emotional ...

EDWARD BURRA

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Pimlico

The Pretender

The pretender

JONATHAN CAPE.

Empress of the Last Days Proof

Penguin/Random House

Edward Burra: Twentieth-century Eye

Biographies & Memoirs

<b>A New York Times Editor's Choice</b><p>An immensely moving account of a strange and magical interracial love affair, The Winter Queen illuminates the Netherlands of the seventeenth century. Amid the dark ambiance of the time, the exiled Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius, a West African prince and former slave, fall in love and secretly marry. Jane Stevenson vividly renders both a portrait of an extraordinary relationship and a tumultuous political history.</p>

The Winter Queen

Wheeler Publishing

Sequel to The Winter QueenA New York Times Editor's ChoiceSet in seventeenth-century Holland, Restoration London, and Barbados, this is the second volume of Jane Stevenson's masterly historical trilogy. The Winter Queen, the acclaimed first volume, told of the mature passion of Elizabeth of Bohemia and her clandestine lover, an African prince and former slave. Now Balthasar Stuart, the secret child born of their love, struggles to come to terms with his rich, difficult, and complex heritage.

The Shadow King

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