The Squire Quartet

Spanning fifty years and three continents - from pre-war Suffolk, to the Far East in the 1940s, to Oxford and America in the present day - Forgotten Life is a novel of immense scope, encompassing comedy and tragedy, joy and grief, as its three main characters try to work out the most difficult problem of all - the meaning of their own lives. Brian says: ''This novel, which in retrospect can be seen to have a similar ground plan to Non-Stop, written thirty years earlier, was more warmly received than any other Aldiss novel, not simply by its reviewers but by readers.'' Features a new introduction by the author.

About the author

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Aldiss, Brian W. Aldiss
• Publisher: The Friday Project
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.05.2012
• EAN: 9780007461165
• ISBN: 978-0-00-746116-5
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: The Squire Quartet
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy > Science fiction; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, History, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Biography: historical, political & military, Suffolk, FICTION / Psychological, Oxfordshire, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: historical, political and military, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary