Ok, Mr. Field : a novel

The Resource Ok, Mr. Field : a novel

Label

Ok, Mr. Field : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Katharine Kilalea

Title variation

Okay, Mister Field

Language

eng

Summary

Mr. Field wants a new life, a life cleansed of the old one's disappointments. A concert pianist on the London scene, his career is upended when the train he is travelling on crashes into the wall at the end of a tunnel. The accident splinters his left wrist, jeopardizing his musical ambitions. On a whim, he uses his compensation pay-out to buy a house he has seen only once in a newspaper photograph, a replica of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye on a stretch of coast outside Cape Town. Together with his wife, Mim, Mr. Field sets out in the hope that the house will make him happier, or at least less unhappy. But as time passes, the house-which Le Corbusier designed as "a machine for living"-begins to have a disturbing effect on Mr. Field. Its narrow windows educate him in the pleasures of frustrated desire. Its sequence of spaces, which seem to lead toward and away from their destinations at once, mirror his sense of being increasingly cut off from the world and from other people. When his wife inexplicably leaves him, Mr. Field can barely summon the will to search for her. Alone in the decaying house, he finds himself unglued from reality and possessed by a longing for a perverse kind of intimacy

Cataloging source

PUL

Dewey number

823/.914

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9369.3.K46

LC item number

O39 2018

Literary form

fiction

Context

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