Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. Written while he was living in California, this is Huxley’s response to Hollywood’s superficiality and obsession with youth, a powerful cautionary tale which employs all his customary wit and merciless insight.
Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. But Stoyte is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless quest will enmesh everyone around him in a web of greed, seduction, murder and debasement. Written while he was living in California, this is Huxley’s response to Hollywood’s superficiality and obsession with youth, a powerful cautionary tale which employs all his customary wit and merciless insight.
- | Author: Aldous Huxley
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Sep 03, 2015
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781784870355
- | ISBN-10: 1784870358