Devil's Valley - Softcover

Brink, André

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099273128 ISBN 13: 9780099273127

Publisher: Vintage, 2000

Synopsis

Flip Lochner is a weary and disillusioned newspaper crime reporter. Curious to find out more about the origins of a casual acquaintance, he descends into Devil's Valley where, like Dante's Virgil, he encounters a bewildering array of mysterious characters and events that lead him to reevaluate the world in which he lives and which he thought he knew. Fusing invention and reality, magic realism and earthy humour, Lochner's adventures in the valley centre around the journey he undertakes to discover the truth about the elusive and erotic figure of Emma, one of Brink's most remarkable creations.

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Review:

"All the compulsion of a thriller... Once again the South African novelist returns to his great theme of a journey into the interior, physical and spiritual, which enables him to examine man's existence in a largely hostile universe" (Bel Mooney The Times)

"Freshly, vividly and differently imagined as anything in his work to date" (John Higgins Guardian)

"A moving, angry, exuberant journey into some of mankind's darkest dreams and the redemptive power of his most resilient hope" (A.L.Kennedy Scotsman)

Book Description:

'This is the work of a master story-teller' - Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099273128
• ISBN 13: 9780099273127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368