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Uses of Slime Mould

Essays of Four Decades

Uses of Slime Mould( )
Author: Mosley, Nicholas
Series title:British Literature Ser.
ISBN:978-1-56478-361-5
Publication Date:Jun 2004
Publisher:Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint:Dalkey Archive Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $34.95
Book Description:

Including pieces on Gregory Bateson, William,Faulkner, Philip Pullman, Sir Oswald Mosley's,politics and stammering, this diverse collection,gathers essays written by Whitbread award-winning,Nicholas Mosley, author of Hopeful Monsters, over,the past forty years. Resembling the behaviour of,slime mould - a strange organism made up of separ-,ate amoebae that temporarily form a single pillar,which then bursts in order to scatter its seeds,across the forest floor - the ideas found in...
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Book Details
Pages:222
Detailed Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.14 x 8.06 x 0.89 Inches
Book Weight:0.836 Pounds
Author Biography
Mosley, Nicholas (Author)
Nicholas Mosley was born on June 25, 1923. During World War II, he joined the Rifle Brigade and won the Military Cross. He read philosophy for one year at Oxford University. His first novel, Spaces in the Dark, was published in 1951. His other novels included Accident, Impossible Object, and Hopeful Monsters, which won the Whitbread book of the year in 1990. He wrote biographies of poet Julian Grenfell, Russian leader Leon Trotsky, and Father Raymond Raynes. He was best known for his two-part biography on his father Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, entitled The Rules of the Game and Beyond the Pale. He died on February 28, 2017 at the age of 93.

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