Mantissa (Back Bay Books)
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: August 4, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780316290272
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fowles, John - Prose & Criticism; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Fiction / General
First sentence: IT was conscious of a luminous and infinite haze, as if it were floating, godlike, alpha and omega, over a sea of vapor and looking down; then less happily, after an interval of obscure duration, of murmured sounds and peripheral shadows, which reduced the impression of boundless space and empire to something much more contracted and unaccommodating.