The Affirmation
Fiction & Literature, Classics, Literary, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
| Author: | Christopher Priest | ISBN: | 1230000286999 |
| Publisher: | Valancourt Books | Publication: | December 20, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN: | 1230000286999 |
| Publisher: | Valancourt Books |
| Publication: | December 20, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
"Priest writes extraordinarily well . . . his best novel to date . . . an atmosphere of increasingly oppressive menace." - Francis King, The Spectator
"An original and haunting novel." - London Times
"A brilliant and sustained novel of imaginative power." - Vector
Peter Sinclair, a 29-year-old Londoner, is reeling after losing his father, his girlfriend, his job and his flat. Taking refuge in a friend's rural cottage, he tries to make sense of things and figure out where his life began to go wrong by writing an autobiography.* But it is possible that none of this is true ... *
Peter Sinclair is a 31-year-old native of the city of Jethra in Faiandland who has just won the grand prize in a lottery: a trip to the Dream Archipelago, a neverending series of idyllic islands, where he will undergo a medical procedure that gives him immortality. Because the process also results in total amnesia, Peter must first set down all the details of his life in a manuscript in order to recover the memories afterwards. *But it is also possible that none of this is true ... *
As the two narratives intersect and intertwine, the reader must decide what is real and what is not in this brilliant literary mindgame from Christopher Priest, the award-winning author of* The Prestige* and The Separation.
"Priest writes extraordinarily well . . . his best novel to date . . . an atmosphere of increasingly oppressive menace." - Francis King, The Spectator
"An original and haunting novel." - London Times
"A brilliant and sustained novel of imaginative power." - Vector
Peter Sinclair, a 29-year-old Londoner, is reeling after losing his father, his girlfriend, his job and his flat. Taking refuge in a friend's rural cottage, he tries to make sense of things and figure out where his life began to go wrong by writing an autobiography.* But it is possible that none of this is true ... *
Peter Sinclair is a 31-year-old native of the city of Jethra in Faiandland who has just won the grand prize in a lottery: a trip to the Dream Archipelago, a neverending series of idyllic islands, where he will undergo a medical procedure that gives him immortality. Because the process also results in total amnesia, Peter must first set down all the details of his life in a manuscript in order to recover the memories afterwards. *But it is also possible that none of this is true ... *
As the two narratives intersect and intertwine, the reader must decide what is real and what is not in this brilliant literary mindgame from Christopher Priest, the award-winning author of* The Prestige* and The Separation.
