London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!"
  • ISBN10 0140006451
  • ISBN13 9780140006452
  • Publish Date April 1969 (first published 1 January 1923)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 18 January 1994
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 256
  • Language English