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  Several Perceptions (Virago modern classics) (Paperback) By (author) Angela Carter

  

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  Short Description for Several PerceptionsJoseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel.
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  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
  • Published: 06 March 1997
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781860490941 ISBN 10: 1860490948
  • Sales rank: 196,407

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Full description for Several Perceptions

• Centre stage in Angela Carter's unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend has abandoned him, Joseph has decided to give up existing. But his concerned friends and neighbours have other plans. In an effort to join in the spirit of protest which motivates his contemporaries, Joseph frees a badger from the local zoo; sends a turd airmail to the President of the United States; falls in love with the mother of his best friend; and, accompanied by the strains of an old man's violin, celebrates Christmas Eve in a bewildering state of sexual discovery. But has he found the Meaning of Life?