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Serpent

Nicholas Mosley

Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada--the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest and popular on such a subject can be made, and, while en route to the production site (Jason, producers and stars in first class--his wife and child in tourist), a dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art, and the world around him in several different ways at once.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publish Date: Jul 1st, 2000
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.51in - 0.60in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9781564782441
  • Categories: • Historical - General

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About the Author

Mosley, Nicholas: - Born in London, Mosley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford and served in Italy during the Second World War, winning the Military Cross for bravery. He succeeded as 3rd Baron Ravensdale in 1966 and, on the death of his father on 3 December 1980, he also succeeded to the Baronetcy. His father, Sir Oswald Mosley, founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932 and was a supporter of Benito Mussolini. Sir Oswald was arrested in 1940 for his antiwar campaigning, and spent the majority of World War II in prison. As an adult, Nicholas was a harsh critic of his father in "Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933-1980" (1983), calling into question his father's motives and understanding of politics. Nicholas' work contributed to the 1998 Channel 4 television programme titled 'Mosley' based on his father's life. At the end of the mini-series, Nicholas is portrayed meeting his father in prison to ask him about his national allegiance. Mosley began to stammer as a young boy, and attended weekly sessions with speech therapist Lionel Logue in order to help him overcome the speech disorder. Mosley says his father claimed never really to have noticed his stammer, but feels Sir Oswald may have been less aggressive when speaking to him than he was towards other people as a result.

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Praise for this book

"Nicholas Mosley is a brilliant novelist who has received nothing like the attention he deserves." --?Robert Scholes, "Saturday Review"

" "Serpent" is an engrossing, if not an explosively original book." --? "Boston Review"

"An exhilerating high-modernist novel of ideas." --"?Kirkus"

""Serpent" is an engrossing, if not an explosively original book." --?"Boston Review"