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Children of Darkness and Light

Children of Darkness and Light Paperback / softback - 1997

by Nicholas Mosley

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  • Title Children of Darkness and Light
  • Author Nicholas Mosley
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
  • Date 1997-07-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781564781512
  • ISBN 9781564781512 / 1564781518
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Religious fiction, Journalists - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96051797
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the rear cover

In Children of Darkness and Light, Mosley takes on what for most novelists has been the most challenging of subjects: a novel directly concerned with religious belief. A middle-aged, burnt-out journalist is sent to the north of England to do a story about the possible appearance of the Blessed Virgin to a group of children, though this may be a rumor initiated by the government to cover up a nuclear disaster. Or both. Out of such conflicting possibilities, Mosley invents a sinister world where nothing is what it seems to be. And as Mosley's narrator moves through the possibilities of half-truths, lies, conspiracies, and betrayals, he himself creates a parallel crisis in his personal life wherein he and his wife are trying to destroy their marriage or save it, or - as we come to expect in Mosley novels - do both at once. And behind all this is the possibility that the narrator - half philosopher and half would-be saint - is little more than a middle-aged man trying to justify his irresponsibility and infidelity behind a shield of wit and irony.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/1997, Page 1799
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/1997, Page 828
  • Library Journal, 06/01/1997, Page 150
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/21/1997, Page 185

About the author

Nicholas Mosley was born in London on June 25, 1923 and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, ?"Spaces of the Dark," in 1951. His book?"Hopeful Monsters"?won the 1990 Whitbread Award.

Mosley is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most notably the autobiography "Efforts at Truth" and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, entitled "Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale." He resides in London.