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Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada--the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest and popular on such a subject can be made, and, while en route to the production site (Jason, producers and stars in first class--his wife and child in tourist), a dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art, and the world around him in several different ways at once.

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"An exhilerating high-modernist novel of ideas." -- Kirkus "Nicholas Mosley is a brilliant novelist who has received nothing like the attention he deserves." -- Robert Scholes, Saturday Review "Serpent is an engrossing, if not an explosively original book." -- Boston Review

Serpent

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    A Paperback / softback by Nicholas Mosley

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      Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
      Published 17 August 2000
      ISBN-13 9781564782441
      978-1564782441
      ISBN-10 1564782441

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada--the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest and popular on such a subject can be made, and, while en route to the production site (Jason, producers and stars in first class--his wife and child in tourist), a dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art, and the world around him in several different ways at once.

      Trade Review
      "An exhilerating high-modernist novel of ideas." -- Kirkus "Nicholas Mosley is a brilliant novelist who has received nothing like the attention he deserves." -- Robert Scholes, Saturday Review "Serpent is an engrossing, if not an explosively original book." -- Boston Review

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