In a Dark Wood - Softcover

Warner, Marina

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ISBN 10: 0099962209 ISBN 13: 9780099962205

Publisher: Vintage, 1992

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Set against a vividly drawn background ranging through China, Sicily and London, In A Dark Wood is the story of two brothers, Gabriel Namier, a Jesuit priest and Jerome, editor of a literary magazine. It tells of Gabriel's destruction through love and doubt and of Jerome's struggle with a lifelong sense of failure.

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About the Author:

Marina Warner's most recent novel is Indigo. Her previous novel, The Lost Father, was a Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a writer, critic and historian and besides two earlier novels, In A Dark Wood and The Skating Party, she is the author of three studies of mythology, Alone of All Her Sex: the Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary, Joan of Arc: the Image of Female Heroism and Monuments and Maidens: the Allegory of the Female Form (Winner of the Fawcett Prize). Marina Warner lives in London with her husband, the painter John Dewe Matthews, and one son.

Synopsis:

Set in China, Sicily and London, this is the story of two brothers approaching retirement. It tells of the destruction of one brother through love and doubt, and of the other's struggle with a lifelong sense of failure. By the author of "Joan of Arc", "The Skating Party" and "Indigo".

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