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- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- ISBN: 0618049339
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101545625
- Release Date: September 19, 2000
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Jane Stevenson (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Several Deceptions" by Jane Stevenson to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Several Deceptions"Browse more products related to "Jane Stevenson"Review"Stevenson's novels are strongly plotted, particularly in their expert thematic dovetailing....As a manipulator of actors, she is always in control, perhaps too much so. Despite disparate settings and narrative personas, a single voice--erudite, fastidious, self-aware--emerges....SEVERAL DECEPTIONS delights with its verve and intelligence, but these deliciously baited literary games leave us hungry to see how their creator might lay out a simple meal." "[F]our tales that seem more echoes of the past than soundings of the present....Well-crafted, oddly dated." Publisher's noteAcclaimed in England, these wicked and wonderfully entertaining novellas deal with the infinite human capacity for deception and self-deception. The four stories in this remarkably assured work are beautifully shaped and deftly plotted; each is narrated by a richly distinctive voice, and each ends with a genuine surprise. The themes are wide-ranging: the mysteries of identity, the pitfalls of intellectual arrogance, the damage wrought by cleverness, the role of time in human affairs. AnnotationFour novellas, each with a surprise ending, about characters who have mastered the art of self-deception. Titles are THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY, LAW AND ORDER, THE COLONEL AND JUDY O'GRADY, and CROSSING THE WATER. If You Enjoy "Several Deceptions (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:
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