Mantissa

An amnesiac novelist converses with his muse in this "clever and wickedly funny" classic novel by the author of The Collector (Atlantic Monthly).

"A literary delight." —Playboy

Literature, love, and lust collide as a writer meets his muse—and his match—in John Fowles's most slyly dazzling work of fiction. The writer: Miles Green, a novelist, who awakens in a hospital room, suffering from amnesia. The muse: Erato, who appears alternately as a doctor, a punk, a geisha, a nymph; by turns tender,...