These DeMented Lands: 2 (Morvern Callar Cycle) - Softcover

Warner, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385491468 ISBN 13: 9780385491464

Publisher: Anchor Books, 1998

Synopsis

After the critical success of his first novel, Morvern Callar, Alan Warner has written an extraordinary, stirring sequel to Morvern's odyssey, confirming him as one of the most original, uniquely gifted writers to have appeared this decade.

An air-crash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island--around the isolated honeymoon hot spot, the Drome Hotel--gathering the debris from fallen planes that the islanders have fashioned into makeshift sheds and fences; but what kind of jigsaw is he really assembling as he paces the runway?

A young woman makes landfall on the island, crossing the interior to arrive at the Drome Hotel: desperate, strange--and strangely familiar.

Meanwhile, DJ Cormorant is trying to organize The Big One, a rave on the adjacent airstrip, and from all over These Demented Lands come twisted characters, converging for one final Saturday night at the Drome Hotel.

About this title

Review:

"Warner's second novel is a classic like his first one... glorious... powerful" (Independent)

"A moving evocation of post- apocalyptic rave culture in the West Highlands of contemporary Scotland" (Independent on Sunday)

"Prodigious powers of invention... marvellously dynamic prose... brilliant visual imagination... A greatly ambitious novel" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child" (Scotsman)

"With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist" (Esquire)

From the Publisher:

'Alan Warner has a gift greater than the gift of telling a story. He can make what he chooses to tell us seem like a story we were waiting to hear' Adam Mars-Jones, Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385491468
• ISBN 13: 9780385491464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224