Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley [1971 U.K. PAPERBACK]

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Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley 

VINTAGE U.K. PAPERBACK [1971] PENGUIN BOOKS

Vintage UK import paperback w/ rare cover.

Nice reading copy with some tanning to pages.

Cover has some visible shelf and rub wear. A few sharpie markings on prices. Some wear / scratching to spine.

Inside is clean; pages are tanned. Front endpaper appears to have been torn out; otherwise a tight, square reading copy!


London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!"