Hollowing (Hb) - Hardcover

Holdstock, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0451453557 ISBN 13: 9780451453556

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

After the disappearance of his son into the mysterious depths of Ryhope Wood, a father braves the powerful forces of the strange, magical forest on a quest that takes him from ancient North America to medieval Europe to the age of Greek myth on a search for his son.

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Review:

"Indescribably enchanting."
--The Spectator on "The Hollowing"

"Rob Holdstock's is one of the voices at the very heart of modern fantasy."
--Guy Gavriel Kay

"One of Britain's best fantasists...a myth-maker of originality."
--"The Times" on "The Bone Forest"

"Holdstock is now the finest writer of metamorphic fantasy now working."
--"The Washington Post" on "Celtika"
Rob Holdstock's is one of the voices at the very heart of modern fantasy.--Guy Gavriel Kay

Indescribably enchanting. "The Spectator on The Hollowing"

Rob Holdstock's is one of the voices at the very heart of modern fantasy. Guy Gavriel Kay

One of Britain's best fantasists...a myth-maker of originality. "The Times on The Bone Forest"

Holdstock is now the finest writer of metamorphic fantasy now working. "The Washington Post on Celtika""

Indescribably enchanting. The Spectator on The Hollowing

Rob Holdstock's is one of the voices at the very heart of modern fantasy. Guy Gavriel Kay

One of Britain's best fantasists...a myth-maker of originality. The Times on The Bone Forest

Holdstock is now the finest writer of metamorphic fantasy now working. The Washington Post on Celtika

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"Indescribably enchanting." --The Spectator on The Hollowing

"Rob Holdstock's is one of the voices at the very heart of modern fantasy." --Guy Gavriel Kay

"One of Britain's best fantasists...a myth-maker of originality." --The Times on The Bone Forest

"Holdstock is now the finest writer of metamorphic fantasy now working." --The Washington Post on Celtika

From the Back Cover:

Alex Bradley, a highly imaginative child left brain-damaged after a bizarre attack, vanishes one day from his home. Months later a body is found on the edge of Ryhope Wood wherein live the mythagos-phantoms generated over time by our dreams and nightmares.

Alex has in fact been absorbed by the wood, drawn through a ‘hollowing’ into its green heart. There his dreams will continue to populate the wood with his particular mythagos. But like Alex, they too are damaged: the great heroes he conjures are warped, incomplete and dangerous. Savage and lost, they are compelled to seek their creator.

The havoc they wreak threatens those who search for Alex, including his father, Richard. In the end, it will threaten the very existence of the wood itself and of its natural mythagos.

“Time stopping stuff from one of Britain’s best ... a myth-maker of originality”
THE TIMES

“'The Hollowing' is Holdstock’s richest and most skilful exercise in fiction to date”
VECTOR

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0451453557
• ISBN 13: 9780451453556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384