THE WAVES (WORDSWORTH CLASSICS) (FREE DELIVERY)
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself. Bernard is a story-teller, always seeking some elusive and apt phrase. Louis is an outsider who seeks acceptance and success. Neville seeks out a series of men, each of whom becomes the present object of his transcendent love. Jinny is a socialite whose world view corresponds to her physical, corporeal beauty. Susan flees the city, preferring the countryside, where she grapples with the thrills and doubts of motherhood. Rhoda is riddled with self-doubt, anxiety and depression, always rejecting and indicting human compromise, always seeking out solitude.