Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted bythe death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical andmanip... » 

Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted bythe death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical andmanipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detachment from theworld has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardiceAnthony attempts to find a new way to live. Eyeless in Gaza offers acounterpoint to the biting cynicism of Huxleys earlier satirical novels andis considered by many to be his definitive work of fiction. «