About this title: From the author of THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, a novel first published by Jonathan Cape in 1977. Set in various international locations over the course of three decades, an account of an Englishman's attempt to see himself and his time in the mirrors of the past.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780316289597ISBN:0316289590
Description: Good in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book Club Edition. The book is very solid with bright, unmarked pages. The dust jacket has moderate shelf & edge wear with a horizontal tear across the spine ~3 inches from the top. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780451082497ISBN:0451082494
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge and seam wear. Edges have light stain and light soiling. White label over previous owner's name inside. Tanning pages. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780316289597ISBN:0316289590
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Nice hard cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to dust jacket, book club edition, stk #2536p8. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 629 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780316289597ISBN:0316289590
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Nice hard cover, lightly read, some shelf wear & aging to dust jacket, small tears on bottom of dust jacket, stk #2571b9. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 629 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780316289597ISBN:0316289590
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Ex-library. Nice hard cover, acetate over dust jacket, library stamps & stickers, stk #2621e9. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 629 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780316289597ISBN:0316289590
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Nice hard cover, lightly read, some wear /tear/aging to dust jacket, light marks on top edge, stk #2565a9. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 629 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Edition: lst printing.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1978
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Slight cover-, edge-, wear. Pp lightly 'tanned'. NO stains, tears, writing, in tight book. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I had a graduate professor who challenged our group to find a contemporary literary novel with a truly believable 'happy ending.' Fowles' Daniel Martin does just that, but it takes over 600 pages to develop it -- and 'happy ending' doesn't mean a necessarily 'happy journey.' Fowles set out to show that sometimes in life, things do turn out well -- but it takes a lot of hard work, will, and luck. His experiements with changing tenses and point of view is an interesting read. Adult reading, not for adolescents."
"John Fowles is one of my favorite contemporary writers, and now--having read Daniel Martin--I almost regret not saving it for my last read of his. It was written nearer the middle of his career, but still manages to provide the most wonderful feeling of autobiographical summation, like an epic epilogue reflection on life lived. Being that the life in question is that of a narcissistic playwright turned jaded Hollywood screenwriter too much obsessed with the nostalgia of his youth and the yearning lingering loves of his past, I was almost guaranteed to relate, though I of course lack Dan's age and perspective. Perhaps I can read this again when I'm 50 and see it in a new light. This is that kind of a book.
I don't quite understand the criticisms Fowles endures for Daniel Martin in particular (which informed on my desire to pick it up); it's a dense thing to be sure, but absolutely rich with lovingly written, complicated characters and the kind of narrative structure that brings out the subtleties of its own telling in ways that illuminate the shrewd dexterity of Fowles' abilities as a novel-writer. I especially loved the subtle shifts between narrative forms, which could have come off as pretentious metafiction, but instead expand on the idea of Dan as a creator of narratives and observer of his own life.
Is Daniel Martin too much John Fowles: self-absorbed misogynist anhedonic intellectual? Honestly, I've never gotten this from Fowles, and if anything Daniel Martin stands for me as a testament against all that. It's a deeply Romantic apologia for all that misconception, a warmly emotional treatise on how to live (and love) together as people. Fowles could be a crotchety bastard, but about halfway through the book I stopped associating him with his protagonist. Daniel Martin stands on his own."
"First: it really upsets me that when you search "Fowles" on goodreads, you get every Artemis Fowl book before a single one by John Fowles. On John's behalf, I take this personally.
Second: I love John Fowles. He has an ability to make me feel that almost no other writer does. Like The Magus, some parts of this book were hard to read because the situations in it are so painful and real. People and their relationships are often crazy, confused, and troubled, and Fowles captures that better than anyone."
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