Natalie Natalia by Mosley, Nicholas

New York. 1971. September 1971. Coward McCann Geoghegan. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 316 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. FROM THE PUBLISHER - NATALIE NATALIA is Nicholas Mosley’s brilliant examination of political life. It revolves around Anthony Greville, a conservative Member of Parliament who is tormented by his ambivalence toward his career, by his religious doubts, and by his adulterous affair with Natalia Jones, the enigmatic wife of a colleague. The course of their affair dramatizes love in its most creative and perilously destructive aspects, the two facets symbolized in the two names he has for his lover: ‘I sometimes called Natalia Natalie instead of Natalia,’ Greville says, ‘when she was the ravenous rather than the angelic angel. What Natalie said was often a code for what Natalia was meaning.’ Ranging in setting from England to Central Africa, the novel is a remarkable investigation of ethics, with fiction itself as an ethical activity. inventory #9645