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,...