The Hollowing: A Novel of the Mythago Cycle: 3 - Softcover

Holdstock, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765311100 ISBN 13: 9780765311108

Publisher: Tor Books, 1900

Synopsis

A NOVEL IN THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD-WINNING MYTHAGO CYCLE

Ryhope Wood, Mythago Wood, is the great forest steeped in mystery, whose heart contains secrets that change all who come there.

Alex Bradley is a damaged and visionary child. Little does he know that the distorted creations of his mind are alive inside nearby Ryhope Wood. When the forest claims him, his father goes in pursuit, along with a scientific expedition looking for the secret of "mythago-genesis"...

But inside Ryhope, Alex has created a hundred forms of the Trickster-all of them seeking their maker, and all of them deadly.

About this title

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

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: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0765311100
• ISBN 13: 9780765311108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336