Weymouth Sands - Hardcover

Powys, John Cowper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879517174 ISBN 13: 9780879517175

Publisher: Overlook Press, 1999

Synopsis

Along with Wolf Solen,' 'A Glastonbury Romance,' and 'Maiden Castle,' this modern classic originally published in 1934, forms the quartet that 'are just about the only novels produced by an English writer that can be fairly compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.' (George Steiner). 'To encounter Powys is to arrive at the very fount of creation.' - Henry Miller '...is one of the very few English novelists of the last fifty years of whom it could be said that they have not talent but genius.' - J B Priestley'

About this title

Product Description:

Weymouth Sands {originally Jobber Skald}

Review:

"To encounter Powys is to arrive at the very fount of creation." --Henry Miller ?I am working my way slowly through [Powy?s] works of which "A Glastonbury Romance" is the mightiest. Epic in length, this has an important contemporary resonance as all the makings of the modern Glastonbury legends, mirrored and enacted anew at the 1971 Glastonbury Fayre, are prefigured in this remarkable epic tale? "Weymouth Sands" is a book you can live with for a month or more and immerse yourself. Haunting and powerful, strange, absurd and mysterious.? --The Generalist Blog

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0879517174
• ISBN 13: 9780879517175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 567