Book description
In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that
A Maggot
began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious
purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a
hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a
maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and
revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling
mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre. John Fowles
won international recognition with The Collector
, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an
outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power. This
reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works
including The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The
Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa
and A Maggot.
John Fowles died in 2005.
