Title: Antic Hay
First published: September 2, 2004
Description: London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed—Aldous Huxley's *Antic Hay*. like Hemingway's *The Sun Also Rises*, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists—all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy. What the *New York Times* called “a delirium of sense enjoyment!”
Subjects: Intellectual life, Novelists, Fiction, Intellectuals, City and town life, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), London (england), fiction, Authors, fiction, Nineteen twenties, Prohibited books, Fiction, satire, Fiction, city life
Places: England, London (England), London
Time periods: 20th century