The Digging Leviathan

James P. Blaylock

ISBN 10: 0586201750 / ISBN 13: 9780586201756

Published by Grafton, 1988

About this Item

Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, edges and corners a little creased and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing. Seller Inventory # 030058

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Digging Leviathan

Publisher: Grafton

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Soft cover

Illustrator: David O'Connor

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Southern California—sunny days, blue skies, neighbours on flying bicycles ... ghostly submarines ... mermen off the Catalina coast ... and a vast underground sea stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire where Chinese junks ply an illicit trade and enormous creatures from ages past still survive. It is a place of wonder ... and dark conspiracies.

A place rife with adventure—if one knows where to look for it. Two such seekers are the teenagers Jim Hastings and his friend, Giles Peach. Giles was born with a wonderful set of gills along his neck and insatiable appetite for reading. Drawing inspiration from the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Giles is determined to build a Digging Leviathan. Will he reach the center of the earth? or destroy it in the process?

Synopsis:

This novel written in the style of Ray Bradbury is about an idiosyncratic character who has the power to realize his fantasies. The author presents us with a modern day Hieronymous Bosch cityscape in which the central figure lives his unrealistic existence, viewing life from a novel perspective. The author has won the World Fantasy Award and the Philip K.Dick Memorial Award for previous novels.