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The Guyana Quartet - by Wilson Harris (Paperback)

Name: The Guyana Quartet - by Wilson Harris (Paperback)
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SKU: 1012692986
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This dreamlike masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary.
Author(s): Wilson Harris
464 Pages
Fiction, Literary

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Book Synopsis

This dreamlike masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary.

I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...

British Guiana. An ancient landscape of rainforests and swamplands; a colony haunted by the enduring legacies of slavery and murder.

A riverboat crew led charts a quest seeking indigenous peoples to exploit as plantation labour; but their journey becomes a spiritual voyage towards the Palace of the Peacock ...

A genius money-lender, illegitimate child, and beggar become entangled in a strange drama that illuminates how slavery's descendants struggle to achieve true freedom ...

A man accused of a murder he didn't commit is on the run in the jungle swamplands; but as his innocence is disputed, he stages his death, entering a hallucinatory otherworld ...

A government surveyour captaining a boat crew encounters an elderly local man who accuses him of unfair dealings and threatens rebellion, building to a nightmarish climax ...

Reissued as a new omnibus with a foreword by Ishion Hutchinson to mark Sir Wilson Harris' centenary, The Guyana Quartet - The Palace of the Peacock, The Far Journey of Oudin, The Whole Armour and The Secret Ladder - is a dazzling, mythic, epic masterpiece, as revolutionary today as it was over half a century ago.

"The Guyanese William Blake ... [Such] poetic intensity." -- Angela Carter

Review Quotes

"Perhaps the most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean." -- Fred D'Aguiar

"Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous." -- Observer

"Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying." -- Times

"An extraordinary writer ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues." -- Pauline Melville

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x 1.4 Inches (D)

Weight: .95 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 464

Genre: Fiction

Sub-Genre: Literary

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback

Author: Wilson Harris

Language: English

Street Date: February 8, 2022

TCIN: 1012692986

UPC: 9780571368075

Item Number (DPCI): 247-56-9083

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.4 inches length x 5.1 inches width x 7.7 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 0.95 pounds

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