Depths and Dragons (Paperback)

Visionary poet and archeologist Hugh Fox excavates the fragile human psyche and its need for spiritual belonging in his novel Depths and Dragons. The reader will be swept along on a cosmopolitan excursion that skirts variant cultural scapes and languages as it lurches toward some unknown existential destination. The story is told evocatively through a clever synthesis of the tragi-comic and the author's kaleidoscopic stream of consciousness style. Fox is a consummate master of inner monologues that teeter somewhere between the conscious and subconscious without ever fully yielding to either. The aptly named Miriam must undergo a journey of violent displacement between the worlds of Jew and gentile, rabbi and priest, orthodoxy and heresy. Along the way she is made to pay the ultimate price of familial sacrifice, degenerative diaspora, and the loss of her spiritual moorings. The novel battles states of inner and outer terrorism, from physical death to an exalted denial of the flesh, but all the while retaining precious wit and jocularity. The twists and turns of this self-pilgrimage lead to a surprising outcome, and one that will be well worth sharing.

General

Imprint:	Skylight Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	December 2010
Authors:	Hugh Fox
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	146
ISBN-13:	978-1-908011-07-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-908011-07-6
Barcode:	9781908011077

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