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The Devil's Own Work 

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Alan JuddThe Devil's Own Work (1991)
A novel by Alan Judd

 
Awards
Guardian Fiction Prize
Winner of the coveted Guardian Fiction Prize in England, The Devil's Own Work is a subtle, hallucinatory tale of possession. A world-renowned writer living in the South of France owes his extraordinary career to a mysterious literary spirit - is it a demon? - that controls him. The existence of this supernatural muse, and the price it exacts, remain hidden, until the famous writer's death, when the spirit is transferred to a rising but as yet unformed literary hopeful, whose own celebrity begins immediately and inexplicably to grow. The only clues to these two possessions are an ancient, inscrutable manuscript and the continuing presence of an apparently ageless woman, who attaches herself in turn to these gifted but soon distracted and eventually desperate men. And as the narrator, a guileless teacher of literature, pieces their stories together, we begin to see what can happen when an artist surrenders to the charms of fame. Written as an homage to Ford Madox Ford and The Good Soldier, Alan Judd's new novel holds us suspended between seeing and understanding. It is a parable of the perils of creativity, and an acerbically witty commentary on the literary world.

 
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January 2000 : Hardback
Title: MELTDOWN
Author(s): James Powlik
Publisher: Unknown
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July 1997 : Hardback
Title: The Devil's Own Work
Author(s): Alan Judd
ISBN: 0-517-19357-4 / 978-0-517-19357-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
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June 1994 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0679425527Title: The Devil's Own Work
Author(s): Alan Judd
ISBN: 0-679-42552-7 / 978-0-679-42552-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Knopf
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June 1991 : Hardback
Title: The Devil's Own Work
Author(s): Alan Judd
ISBN: 0-00-223832-2 / 978-0-00-223832-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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1984 : Hardback
Title: The Devil's Own Work
Author(s): Alan. Judd
Publisher: Harper Collins
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November 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0006544940Title: The Devil's Own Work (Flamingo)
Author(s): Alan Judd
ISBN: 0-00-654494-0 / 978-0-00-654494-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Flamingo
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June 1995 : Paperback
Title: The Devil's Own Work
Author(s): Alan Judd
ISBN: 0-679-74745-1 / 978-0-679-74745-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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January 1994 : Paperback
Title: THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
Author(s): Alan. Judd
Publisher: NY: Knopf
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January 1992 : Paperback
Title: The Devil's Own Work
Author(s): Alan Judd
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1992 : Paperback
Title: The Devil's Own Work
Author(s): Alan Judd
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1991 : Paperback
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2001 : Unknown
Title: The devil\'s own work
Author(s): Judd Alan
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2001 : Unknown
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