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Item Condition: Collectible; Very Good.
Miles Green wakes up ina mysterious hos
pital with no idea of how he got there or
who he is. He definitely doesn't remember
his wife, or the children's names that her
voice mnakes sound like overdue bills. A
shapely and internationally famous special-
ist in abnormal brain-function tells Miles
that the memory nerve centre is closely as-
sociated with the one controlling sexual
activity. She calls in the even shapelier
black Nurse Cory to assist with treatment.
Sensing himselfan enemy of the permissive
society, Miles struggles bravely to preserve
his natural modesty, but Dr A. Delfe is
implacably indifferent to his scruples.
It is with this opening scene and within
the quilted grey walls of this blasphemously
unorthodox hospital room that John
Fowles reaffirns his notorious ability to
disarm the unwary, Having ensnared his
readers with The Collector, toyed with them
relenttessly in The Magus, given them no
indication in the tantalizing inventions of
The French Lieutenmant's Woman of where he
would be going in Daniel Martin, he now
invites them to a confrontation of starting
explicitness It is a male-female confron-
tation-but the medical setting is only the
beginning Sufice it to say that those who
want to discover what goes on in the min….