Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. But Stoyte is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless quest will enmesh everyone around him in a web of greed, seduction, murder and debasement. Written while he was living in California, this is Huxley’s response to Hollywood’s superficiality and obsession with youth, a powerful cautionary tale which employs all his customary wit and merciless insight.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784870355
Number of pages: 336
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 23 mm
Weight: 244 g
Language: English
This is Mr. Huxley's Hollywood novel, and you might expect it to be fantastic, extravagant, crazy and preposterous. It is all that, and heaven and hell too....It is the kind of novel that he is particularly the master of, where the most extraordinary and fortuitous events are followed by contemplative little essays on the meaning of life....The story is outrageously good - New York Times
A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence - New Yorker
Mr. Huxley's elegant mockery, his cruel aptness of phrase, the revelations and the ingenious surprises he springs on the reader are those of a master craftsman; Mr. Huxley is at the top of his form - Times Literary Supplement
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White Nights
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East of Eden
And Then There Were None
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The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
The Outsider
Madonna in a Fur Coat
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