The Ebony Tower by John Fowles (1978, Paperback, Reissue) 
The Ebony Tower by John Fowles (1978, Paperback, Reissue)
Author: John Fowles
Publisher: New Amer Library
Publication Date: 1978-08-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0451156919
ISBN-13: 9780451156914
Product ID: EPID460061
Description: A novella, a translation, and three short stories, mostly concerned with the lives of artists and the relation between art and life. In the title novella, based on a Celtic tale by Marie de France, two young Englishmen--an artist and a ...
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Synopsis
A novella, a translation, and three short stories, mostly concerned with the lives of artists and the relation between art and life. In the title novella, based on a Celtic tale by Marie de France, two young Englishmen--an artist and a critic--visit an elderly expatriate painter in Italy and speculate on trends in modern painting.

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Publication Date:1978-08-01
Edition Description:Reissue

Industry Reviews
"Fowles is a master of prose style whose haunting and enigmatic stories have much to offer the serious reader."
Library Journal - R. A. Carter (10/01/1974)

"Each story turns out to be a quest or ordeal in the good old fashion of Celtic mythology....The details are carefully and nicely assembled."
Times Literary Supplement (10/04/1974)

"...I read the book with an appreciation that at times bordered on the feverish...he is almost certainly one of those writers--good or bad, usually the most interesting--whose work will be much more fairly judged in a later day than his own."
New Statesman - Peter Prince (10/11/1974)

"It is strange that a novelist as imaginative, as literate and as ambitious as John Fowles should be content to write within the canons of conventional textbook realism....Yet each of these stories is anything but obvious or thin. However conventionally they begin and proceed, there comes a point when their issues dramatically engage and take on complexity and power--it's as though one had picked up a simple, familiar object, casually examined it and suddenly found it shaking in one's hands."
New York Times Book Review - Ted Solotaroff (11/10/1974)

"Fowles is a writer in a million, whose message--although he would deny the possession of anything so vulgar and inartistic, anything in fact so redolent of value judgement--may well be contained in the curious incident at the end of 'The Ebony Tower' where a weasel is run over and killed by the critic's motor car. Life is sacred and the internal combustion engine is not, perhaps?"
Spectator - Benny Green (11/16/1974)

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