Towers at the Edge of a World - Hardcover

Virgil Burnett

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9780312811518: Towers at the Edge of a World

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312811519 ISBN 13: 9780312811518

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1980

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Includes the annals of Montarnis from the Dark Ages to the present, told as a series of short stories.

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Review:

'Towers at the Edge of a World is a perverse mad dream of rebirth and renewal by a remarkably sensitive artist.'

Towers at the Edge of a World is a perverse mad dream of rebirth and renewal by a remarkably sensitive artist.'

Towers at the Edge of a World is a perverse mad dream of rebirth and renewal by a remarkably sensitive artist.' -- Joan Murray

...it has something to say about husbands, wives, humour, places, and the various colours of sexuality.'--Anatole Broyard "The New York Times "

"Towers at the Edge of a World" is a perverse mad dream of rebirth and renewal by a remarkably sensitive artist.'--Joan Murray "Maclean's "

... fifteen loosely interwoven tales centred on the ancient, walled town of Montarnis ... the stuff of which legends are made, simple human action embellished and distorted by passion and despair.'--Alison Griffiths "Quill & Quire "

About the Author:

Virgil Burnett is an author-illustrator whose work has been widely published on this continent and in Europe. His recent projects include illustrations for "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (The Folio Society: London, England) and work on a third novel. He was a member of the Fine Arts faculty of the University of Waterloo, and now spends part of each year working and travelling abroad. Other illustrated fictions by Burnett include "Skiamachia" and "Towers at the Edge of a World".

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