ISBN: | 9781573220941 |
Publisher: | Riverhead Books |
Published: | 31 December, 1998 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
Editions: |
5 other editions
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- "Doctor Who" the Deadstone Memorial
- "Doctor Who", to the Slaughter
- Alien Bodies
- Beltempest
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- Camera Obscura (Doctor Who)
- Casualties of War
- Dark Progeny
- Demontage
- Doctor Who (Dr Who Big Finish)
- Doctor Who and the Taint (Doctor Who Series)
- Doctor Who: Apollo 23
- Doctor Who: Dark Progeny
- Doctor Who: Demontage
- Doctor Who: Eater of Wasps
- Doctor Who: Emotional Chemistry (Doctor Who (BBC Paperback))
- Doctor Who: Halflife
- Doctor Who: Kursaal
- Doctor Who: Legacy of the Daleks
- Doctor Who: Option Lock
- Doctor Who: Reckless Engineering (Doctor Who (BBC Paperback))
- Doctor Who: Seeing I
- Doctor Who: The Janus Conjunction
- Doctor Who: Vanishing Point
- Doctor Who: the Gallifrey Chronicles: Gallifrey Chronicles
- Dominion
- Dreamstone Moon
- EarthWorld
- Eater of Wasps
- Emotional Chemistry
- Escape Velocity
- Escape Velocity (Doctor Who)
- Father Time
- Father Time (Doctor Who)
- Frontier Worlds
- Genocide
- Grimm Reality
- Halflife
- History 101
- History 101 (Doctor Who)
- Hope
- Hope (Doctor Who)
- Kursaal
- Legacy of the Daleks
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen
- Option Lock
- Parallel 59
- Placebo Effect
- Placebo Effect (Doctor Who Series)
- Reckless Engineering
- Revolution Man
- Revolution Man (Doctor Who Series)
- Seeing I
- Sometime Never...
- Sometime Never... (Doctor Who)
- The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
- The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (Doctor Who)
- The Ancestor Cell
- The Banquo Legacy
- The Blue Angel
- The Bodysnatchers
- The Book of the Still
- The City of the Dead
- The Crooked World
- The Dating Game: Parallel Parking No. 6
- The Deadstone Memorial
- The Domino Effect
- The Eight Doctors
- The Face-Eater
- The Face-Eater (Doctor Who Series)
- The Fall of Yquatine
- The Fall of Yquatine (Doctor Who (BBC Paperback))
- The Gallifrey Chronicles
- The Infinity Race
- The Janus Conjunction
- The Scarlet Empress
- The Scarlet Empress (Doctor Who series)
- The Shadows of Avalon
- The Sleep of Reason
- The Slow Empire
- The Space Age
- The Taint
- The Taking of Planet 5
- The Turing Test
- Time Zero
- Time Zero (Doctor Who)
- Timeless
- To the Slaughter
- Trading Futures
- Unnatural History
- Unnatural History (Doctor Who Series)
- Vampire Science
- Vanderdeken's Children
- Vanishing Point
- War of the Daleks
At once powerful, funny, and disturbing, Hope is a first novel about a young man's self-destructive obsession with pornography."A missive from the purgatory...Hope has the confessional, self-lacerating narrative style of Portnoy's Complaint>" -- The Times Literacy Supplement"Infused with a caustic humor and a host of observations on freindship, pornography, and the moral malaise of a generation, Hope is this summer's essential first novel". -- (British) EsquireGabriel Jones could be your boyfriend, your husband, or even yourself -- he's an intelligent, charming, poetry-loving university graduate; he believes in love; he's capable of strong friendships -- and he's been seeing a gorgeous high-priced call girl who picked him up in a London cafe. He's also addicted to pornography. In fact, it's his attraction to pornography that causes the collapse of his relationship with the one woman he has ever loved.Hope is a novel in the tradition of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Nabokov's Lolita, and Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground -- confessional novels that have at their centers a hyperintelligent protagonist who seductively draws the reader into an illicit world. Why would a young, attractive man, who has found the woman of his dreams, turn to pornography? Why do men in general turn to pornography? Welcome to the world of Hope.By turns disarmingly intelligent, hilariously funny, and deeply disturbing, Hope examines Gabriel Jones's numerous obsessions; love and friendship;
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