Chymical Wedding - Softcover

Clarke, Lindsay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804107025 ISBN 13: 9780804107020

Publisher: Ivy Books, 1991

Synopsis

It is the early 1980s. Alex Darken, devastated by a broken marriage, has retreated to a remote village in the bleak flatlands of eastern England. On the Easterness Estate he meets the volatile, aging poet Edward Nesbit and his vibrant, psychic, young American lover, Laura. Slowly, he is drawn into a strange relationship with them as they piece together the lost studies of two of the present lord's ancestors.
In 1849, Sir Henry Agnew and his elegant, brilliant daughter Louisa, were about to penetrate the last secrets of the mystical art of alchemy. They, like the researches a century and a half later, see in the "chemical wedding" of opposites -- sulphur and quicksilver, spirit and matter, male and female, reality and imagination -- a key to spiritual rebirth. As Edward, Laura, and Alex mirror the Agnew story, dreams and symbols, erotic ecstasy and philosophical argument, climax in a vision which, like those before them, they can grasp only as they skirt insanity and tragedy . . . .
"Engrossing . . . By the time we start wanting to resist, it is too late. The book already has drawn us too deeply into its six intriguing main characters and its rich gothic folds of plot." -- Chicago Tribune

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About the Author

Lindsay Clarke is the author of seven novels, including The Chymical Wedding, which won the Whitbread Award for Fiction in 1989. He is also the author of five radio plays, which were broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and a pamphlet of verse, Stoker.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivy Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0804107025
• ISBN 13: 9780804107020
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English