Powell: The Fisher ∗king∗ (cloth) - Hardcover

Powell, A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039302363X ISBN 13: 9780393023633

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1986

Synopsis

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About this title

Book Description:

Celebrated but crippled photographer, Saul Henchman sets out to cruise the British Isles in search of peace and fulfilment. Beautiful dancer, Barberina Rookwood gives up her career to be with him. Throughout, they are observed by novelist Valentine Beals, who becomes obsessed with the parallels between Henchman's story and the Arthurian Legend of the Fisher King, whose mystic destiny involves love, ambition, desire and sacrifice.

About the Author:

Anthony Powell (1905-2000) has received several literary prizes in Britain and the United States, among them the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the W. H. Smith Annual Literary Award, and the T. S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing. His twelve-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time is available from the University of Chicago Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 039302363X
• ISBN 13: 9780393023633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 255