Synthesis: Microcosms of Tragedy - Hardcover

Vetterlein, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1434374963 ISBN 13: 9781434374967

Publisher: AuthorHouse UK, 2008

Synopsis

Synthesis is set in a sort of no-man's-land where anybody can bump into more or less anybody else. Life on the planet has gone from chaos to more chaos: It is winter. This is a city. The streets are filled for most of the time with motorized vehicles and people swarming the pavements. It is a crowded city in a crowded world where those who have taken it upon themselves to order things find it practically impossible to order anything. Maurice Wylie is a medical man with a complex, troubled background and a nagging conscience. His travails thread through this novel featuring a kaleidoscopic array of characters and circumstance. The theme of human identity and relationships is juxtaposed in time and space at many levels. "In common with the river, we are all subject to tidal influences." There are a number of important characters (some owning similar names) including the brothers Russell and Warren Styles, the latter who becomes an affluent, successful business man with architectural connections; hence all those towers reaching for Utopia anticipating, in a canny way - and as the cover illustration might suggest - the events of September 11th 2001.

About this title

About the Author:

John Vetterlein was born in 1935 and spent the period of the Second World War close to London''s East End. Music, literature and the sciences were powerful influences during his formative years. Having worked in civilian hospitals as a conscientious objector to military National Service, he spent some time in the National Health Service as well as lecturing for London University in astronomy and mathematics. He taught for a period in London secondary schools before moving to Wales in 1971. He was on the staff of the Music Department, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1983 to 1990. His fiction writing includes numerous poems, over 200 short stories, long stories and sixteen novels. He now lives and works in Orkney.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1434374963
• ISBN 13: 9781434374967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200