The age of anxiety : a novel / Pete Townshend.

By:

Townshend, Pete

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 265 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0316398985
9780316398985

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction.

DDC classification:

FIC Towns

LOC classification:

FIC Towns

Summary: In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife disappears, nowhere to be found. A beautiful Irish girl, who has stabbed her father to death is determined to seduce her best friend's husband. A young composer begins to experience aural hallucinations. The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Fiction	Fiction	FIC Towns (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		27207

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In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife disappears, nowhere to be found. A beautiful Irish girl, who has stabbed her father to death is determined to seduce her best friend's husband. A young composer begins to experience aural hallucinations. The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes.

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