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Reminiscent in theme and style to his Whitbread Award-winning?"Hopeful Monsters," Nicholas Mosley's?"The Hesperides Tree"?tells of a young man frustrated by the inability of his two chosen courses of study--biology and literature--to adequately define the world. Baffled by several life-shaping coincidences that seem to be part of life itself, he embarks on a physical and intellectual journey in search of a girl he fell in love with years earlier. This journey leads him to a deserted island off the coast of Ireland and, perhaps, to the mythical Garden of the Hesperides, home of the Tree of Life.

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"A novel of ideas in the best sense, this is a provocative meditation on the roles of chance, fate, and myth in our lives." -- Library Journal

Hesperides Tree

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    A Paperback / softback by Nicholas Mosley

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      Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
      Published 16 August 2001
      ISBN-13 9781564782670
      978-1564782670
      ISBN-10 1564782670

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reminiscent in theme and style to his Whitbread Award-winning?"Hopeful Monsters," Nicholas Mosley's?"The Hesperides Tree"?tells of a young man frustrated by the inability of his two chosen courses of study--biology and literature--to adequately define the world. Baffled by several life-shaping coincidences that seem to be part of life itself, he embarks on a physical and intellectual journey in search of a girl he fell in love with years earlier. This journey leads him to a deserted island off the coast of Ireland and, perhaps, to the mythical Garden of the Hesperides, home of the Tree of Life.

      Trade Review
      "A novel of ideas in the best sense, this is a provocative meditation on the roles of chance, fate, and myth in our lives." -- Library Journal

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