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The collector

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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs.

A chance pools win enables him to capture the art student, Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall.

The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he thinks the chloroform pad no more vicious than his butterfly net, and patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste that inhibit their love to break down in the limbo of their isolation.

She, the creator, desperate for her freedom, tries to be understanding but cannot banish her contempt for everything anti-life that the collector stands for.

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Vintage Classics
0099470470 / 9780099470472
Paperback / softback
823.914
05/02/2004
United Kingdom
English
Thrillers
282 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.