Buy this book on-line POWELL,ANTHONY: : The Fisher King:A NovelLONDON.HEINEMANN,1986. ISBN 0434599263.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Silver and
white letters to blue background dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear,creasing to edges with no nicks or tears.Very slight ageing to top+fore-edges,contents bright,tight and clean.Blue paper-covered bds with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain white eps with the residue of a removed label to front pastedown.8vo,7-255pp.
The Fisher King,a mysterious figure in the Arthurian Legend has been maimed in battle.His only pastime was fishing.Also emasculted by a war wound - and finding relaxation in fishing - is the celebrated photographer, Saul Henchman.Henchman, accompanied by Barberina Rookwood,a beautiful dancer much younger than himself,who has given up her career for him,are on a cruise round the British Isles.Their story is seen for the most part through the eyes of Valentine Beals, a writer of historical thrillers.Beals is haunted with the idea that Henchman is a contemporary version of the Fisher King, whose mystic destiny involves in love, ambition, desire, sacrifice, and incongruous cast of fellow-passengers.
'The Fisher King', Powell's first full length novel [then 1986] since the completion of 'A Dance to the Music of Time', has the same distillation of the inimitable,the wit,irony,sense of life and
originality displayed in the 12 volume
'Dance' sequence,an outstanding literary achievement of our time.
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