The Horse's Mouth bookcover

The Horse's Mouth

Joyce Cary 

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Description

The Horse's Mouth, famously filmed with Alec Guinness in the central role, is a searing portrait of the artistic temperament.

Gulley Jimson is the charming, impoverished painter who cares little about the conventional values of his day. His unfailing belief that he must live and paint according to his intuition without regard for the cost to himself or to others, makes him a man of great, if sometimes flawed, vision.

But with an admirable drive for creation comes an astonishing hunger for destruction. Is he a great artist? A has-been? Or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well?

As Gulley Jimson criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration, the world as seen through his eyes appears with a wonderful lustre and a terrible beauty.


'The Horse's Mouth has the kick of ten stallions. Mr Joyce Cary writes at top pace, at the top of his voice, and the top of his form' - The Observer

Product Details

PublisherLume Books
Publish DateOctober 22, 2020
Pages334
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781839012457
Dimensions8.5 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds

Reviews

'The richest comic novel of the last ten years' - V. S. Pritchett


'Mr Joyce Cary is an important and exciting writer... if you like rich writing full of gusto and accurate original character drawing, you will get it from The Horse's Mouth' - John Betjeman


'The Horse's Mouth has the kick of ten stallions. Mr Joyce Cary writes at top pace, at the top of his voice, and the top of his form' - The Observer

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