The Image of a Drawn Sword (Paperback, On Demand)

The calm of Reynard Langrish's quietly predictable life is shattered when, on a night of rain-swept storm, a stranger - a young soldier called Captain Archer - appears at his remote Kentish cottage. He takes Langrish to an ancient hill fort and introduces him to the men under his command, all of whom share a mysterious tattoo - two snakes entwined around a drawn sword - and are engaged in preparations to defend against a nameless menace, referred to only as 'the Emergency'. As the dreamlike narrative rapidly accelerates into Kafkaesque nightmare, Langrish is drawn into a world where illusion, paranoia, and reality unite with lethal consequences, and disorienting shifts of time and perception culminate in a terrifying moment of pure horror. Originally published in 1950, The Image of a Drawn Sword is steeped in the themes and images that occupy much of Brooke's writing - the relentlessness of time, suppressed homosexuality, condemned love, self-hatred, and futility; and, above all, an England that was both real and uniquely his own, a mystical, half-known natural world. 'In its way not inferior to Kafka . . . [it has] a haunting, sinister quality' - Anthony Powell 'Seldom have naturalism and fantasy been more strangely merged' - Elizabeth Bowen 'He is subtle as the devil' - John Betjeman 'The skill and intensity of the writing made peculiarly haunting this cry of complaint on behalf of a bewildered Man' - Pamela Hansford Johnson, Daily Telegraph

General

Imprint:	Macmillan Bello
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2017
Authors:	Jocelyn Brooke
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	154
Edition:	On Demand
ISBN-13:	978-1-5098-5585-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-5098-5585-8
Barcode:	9781509855858

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