num_pages: 368
description: In 1912 the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster novelist and man of letters who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace lust in close confines under a hot empty sky. It will be another twelve years and a second time spent in India before A Passage to India E. M. Forster's great work of literature is published. During these years Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature bringing these great insights to bear in his remarkable novel.At once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain's finest novelists his struggle to find a way of living and being and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process Arctic Summer is a literary masterpiece by one of the finest writers of his generation.
language: English
title: Arctic Summer
publisher: Atlantic Books