num_pages: 148
description: Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel.
language: English
title: Several Perceptions
titlecomplete: Several Perceptions
genres: 20th Century, Classics, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics, Novels, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 359
awards: awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Virago Modern Classics