Ness
โ Scribed by Robert Macfarlane
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London
- ISBN
- 0241396573
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway
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******'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb -- it is an aftertime song. It is dark, ever so dark, nimble and lethal. It is a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age. Ness is something else, and feels like it always has been' Max Porter, Booker-longlisted author of Lanny and Grief is the Thing with Feathers**
Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent.
But something is coming to stop him.
Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones....
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