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Swansong
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Penguin Random House Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: L7NVZ5D
EAN: 9781784704926
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Beschreibung
'Swansong is the real thing. , right from the start: spiky, strange and contemporary, but always with a dark undertow of myth and folklore tugging at its telling. this is a brilliant novel. by a writer - and musician - of frankly alarming talent. ' Robert MacfarlaneIn this stunningly assured, immersive and vividly atmospheric first novel from the celebrated musician, a young woman comes face-to-face with the volatile, haunted wilderness of the Scottish Highlands. Polly Vaughan is trying to escape the ravaging guilt of a disturbing incident in London by heading north to the Scottish Highlands. As soon as she arrives, this spirited, funny, alert young woman goes looking for drink, drugs and sex - finding them all quickly, and unsatisfactorily, with the barman in the only pub. She also finds a fresh kind of fear, alone in this eerie, myth-drenched landscape. Increasingly prone to visions or visitations - floating white shapes in the waters of the loch or in the woods - she is terrified and fascinated by a man she came across in the forest on her first evening, apparently tearing apart a bird. Who is this strange loner. And what is his sinister secret. Kerry Andrew is a fresh new voice in British fiction; one that comes from a deep understanding of the folk songs, mythologies and oral traditions of these islands. Her powerful metaphoric language gives Swansong a charged, hallucinatory quality that is unique, uncanny and deeply disquieting.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Andrew Kerry
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Taschenbuch
Anzahl Seiten
- 352