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Highlights
- This dreamlike masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary.
- Author(s): Wilson Harris
- 464 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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Book Synopsis
This dreamlike masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary. I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ... British Guiana. An ancient landscape of rainforests and swamplands; a colony haunted by the enduring legacies of slavery and murder. A riverboat crew led charts a quest seeking indigenous peoples to exploit as plantation labour; but their journey becomes a spiritual voyage towards the Palace of the Peacock ... A genius money-lender, illegitimate child, and beggar become entangled in a strange drama that illuminates how slavery's descendants struggle to achieve true freedom ... A man accused of a murder he didn't commit is on the run in the jungle swamplands; but as his innocence is disputed, he stages his death, entering a hallucinatory otherworld ... A government surveyour captaining a boat crew encounters an elderly local man who accuses him of unfair dealings and threatens rebellion, building to a nightmarish climax ... Reissued as a new omnibus with a foreword by Ishion Hutchinson to mark Sir Wilson Harris' centenary, The Guyana Quartet - The Palace of the Peacock, The Far Journey of Oudin, The Whole Armour and The Secret Ladder - is a dazzling, mythic, epic masterpiece, as revolutionary today as it was over half a century ago. The Guyanese William Blake ... [Such] poetic intensity. -- Angela CarterReview Quotes
Perhaps the most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean. -- Fred D'Aguiar Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous. -- Observer Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying. -- Times An extraordinary writer ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues. -- Pauline Melville
Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x 1.4 Inches (D)
Weight: .95 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 464
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Author: Wilson Harris
Language: English
Street Date: February 8, 2022
TCIN: 84906964
UPC: 9780571368075
Item Number (DPCI): 247-32-8162
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.4 inches length x 5.1 inches width x 7.7 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.95 pounds
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