The Fixed Stars: Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season

ISBN-13: 9781573661539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 312 str.

Brian Conn

Opis

A fable-like tale of a small community afflicted by a mysterious plagueJuxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn s The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic.At the novel s heart are the John s Day celebration and the interactions of a small community dealing with a mystery disease. Routinely citizens are quarantined and then reintegrated into society in rituals marked by a haunting brutality. The infected and the healthy alike are quarantined. In a culture that has retreated from urbanism into a more pastoral society, the woman who nurtures spiders and the man who spins hemp exist alongside the mass acceptance of sexual promiscuity.Conn delivers a compelling portrait of a calamitous era, one tormented by pestilence, disease, violence, and post late capitalism. An unflinching look at a world impossible to situate in time, The Fixed Stars is mythic and darkly magical."