Accident (British Literature)

About this book

"Accident " Nicholas Mosleys brilliantly conceived and efficiently structured novel about Oxford University and environs is a prose poem about marriage and infidelity as well as the relationship between writing and existence imagination and action. It is a study of the games academics play both with their students and with themselves on campus and off in bed or on the cricket fields or baronial halls of the landed gentry. By probing the mind of one philosopher-don Stephen who has second thoughts about what constitutes an "accident " Mosley gives us an unforgettable view of life at the top or tip of the academic heights in addition to a moving story of love and betrayal.