The Collector (Back Bay Books)
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"A superb novel...Evil has seldom been so sinister." --TimeHailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the internationally bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists. This tale of obsessive love--the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young art student who is his ultimate quarry--remains unparalleled in its power to startle and mesmerize.
"A bravura first novel...As a horror story, this book is a remarkable tour de force." --New Yorker
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I had such a love/hate relationship with this book. I went into it blindly and was pretty immediately disturbed by the content, though it was incredibly hard to stop. Its written almost as a stream of consciousness, taking place while a man becomes obsessed with a young girl and decides to kidnap her. Halfway through, the stream of consciousness shifts from his perspective to her’s. I’ve never read anything like it, I loved the formatting and the...read more
I don’t know how he does it… somehow I was feeling sorry for Frederick at points and had to remind myself of what he had done
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