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The Dividing Stream (Paperback)
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"An achievement by a writer completely master of his technique, and
I strongly recommend it." - C. P. Snow, "Sunday Times"
"Voluptuously readable . . . an impressive piece of work." - "New
Statesman"
" R]are, and indeed astonishing . . . exercise s] a continuous
fascination." - Lionel Hale, "The Observer"
"Mr. King has something to say in this novel, and he knows how to
say it." - John Betjeman, "Daily Telegraph"
In Florence on business, Max Westfield has brought his wife and
children with him to make a holiday of it. But while shrewdly
perceptive in financial matters, Max is completely blind to the
passions and tragedies that soon begin to surround him. His wife
despises him and is brazenly having an affair with a cynical
expatriate, his secretary wants to be his mistress and dreams of
accompanying him back to England, and his teenage son has fallen in
love with a working-class Italian youth. With what Paul Binding
calls his "darkly penetrative vision of existence," Francis King
weaves these narrative threads into a complex and gripping story of
isolation, despair, and death beneath the intense glare of the
Tuscan sun.
Francis King (1923-2011) received favourable reviews for his first
three novels, but it was his fourth, "The Dividing Stream" (1951),
winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, that secured his
international reputation as one of the foremost young writers of
his generation. This edition, the first in more than 60 years,
includes a new introduction by novelist and critic Paul Binding and
a reproduction of the original dust jacket art by Leslie Wood.
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