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LoveReading Says
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title.
Fantasy fiction for a new generation, with not a trace of dragons or elves, this opening volume in a trilogy by an acclaimed British artist truly confounds the imagination and delights. Previously privately-printed, it was discovered by Watchman and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen creator Alan Moore and comes lauded by Terry Gilliam and many others. Set in historical Africa, this unclassifiable hotch potch of influences and innovations is a crazy surrealist jumble that never fails to amaze led by hunter Tsungali and the Cyclops, Ishmael amongst a striking soul sucking forest. With the real life figures of eccentric French writer Raymond Roussel and Victorian photographer Eadweard Muybridge involved in the spiderweb of interlocking stories and plots, this sprawling garden of delights is complex, poetic and holds a surprise on every page. A revelation. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
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The Vorrh Synopsis
'In The Vorrh we have one of the most original and stunning works of fantasy that has ever been my privilege to read.' Alan Moore In the tradition of China Mieville, Michael Moorcock and Alasdair Gray, B. Catling's The Vorrh is literary dark fantasy which wilfully ignores boundaries, crossing over into surrealism, magic-realism, horror and steampunk. In B. Catling's twisting, poetic narrative, Bakelite robots lie broken - their hard shells cracked by human desire - and an inquisitive Cyclops waits for his keeper and guardian, growing in all directions. Beyond the colonial city of Essenwald lies the Vorrh, the forest which sucks souls and wipes minds. There, a writer heads out on a giddy mission to experience otherness, fallen angels observe humanity from afar, and two hunters - one carrying a bow carved from his lover, the other a charmed Lee-Enfield rifle - fight to the end. Thousands of miles away, famed photographer Eadweard Muybridge attempts to capture the ultimate truth, as rifle heiress Sarah Winchester erects a house to protect her from the spirits of her gun's victims.
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9781473606616 |
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21st May 2015 |
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Brian Catling |
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Coronet Books an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division |
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Hardback |
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Brian Catling Press Reviews
'I am glad to have the book as a companion on my own dark quest.' -- Tom Waits
'Catling's novel reads like a long-lost classic of Decadent or Symbolist literature, with that same sense of timelessness. It's peculiar, wildly imaginative, unafraid to transgress and get lost, and is unlike anything I've ever read.' -- Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy
'Darkly imaginative... Packed with striking images ... real beauty and power.' Kirkus
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About Brian Catling
Brian Catling (born in London, 1948) is an English sculptor, poet, novelist, film maker and performance artist.He was educated at North East London Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. He now holds the post of Professor of Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford and is a fellow of Linacre College. He has been exhibiting his work internationally since the 1970s. Some of his most notable works and performances include: Quill Two at Matt's Gallery, Dilston Grove in 2011, Antix at Matt's Gallery in 2006, a commissoned memorial to the Site of Execution, Tower of London in 2007, Vanished! A Video Seance made with screenwriter Tony Grisoni in 1999 and Cyclops at South London Gallery 1996. In 2001 he co founded the international performance collective WiTW. As a writer he has published poetic works, including one compendium A Court of Miracles in 2009. His first prose book Bobby Awl was published in 2007.
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