The Wicker Man (Paperback, New edition)

Already a film, and probably originally conceived as such, this tale of a Scottish police officer lured to an isolated private isle will be familiar, in outline at least, to fans of horror/voodoo cinematics. Virginal, stoically proper, birdwatching Sergeant Neal Howie flies his sea-copter to Summerisle when word comes to the mainland that twelve-year-old Rowan Morrison has been missing for a year or so. But no one on this strangely warm island will admit that Rowan ever existed - not even her supposed mother and sister (though Sis claims to have a rabbit named Rowan). Stranger still, the island seems to be a primitive "totally alien society," with anti-Christian teaching at school, Hieronymus Bosch-y mass couplings on the village green, not to mention the unlikely flora and fauna. And what about that doctor's bag full of vipers or that mother pushing a frog into that little girl's mouth or that openly salacious wench at the inn who Sgt. Howie fears is after his "precious seed"? Is Rowan Morrison already dead - or being prepared for a May Day fertility ritual? Or - since Sgt. Howie's copter is mysteriously out of commission - could someone else be the virgin sacrifice that the islanders have in mind? Neither the movie-minded accelerating-terror formula nor the special effects (a real grisly finale) translate especially well into prose, but there's more literacy afoot here than we've any right to expect, and readers with a pagan predilection might as well get it in this relatively classy package. (Kirkus Reviews)

A novelization of the Anthony Shaffer script, this is a tale of a Highlands policeman on the trail of a missing girl being lured to the remote Scottish island of Summerisle. As May Day approaches shamanistic and erotic events erupt around him. Was the girl a human sacrifice?

General

Imprint:	Tor Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2000
Authors:	Robin Hardy • Anthony Shaffer
Dimensions:	176 x 110 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	285
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-330-39018-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Fantasy
LSN:	0-330-39018-X
Barcode:	9780330390187

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