Horseman (Mint First Edition)

Nicol, Mike

ISBN 10: 0679437665 / ISBN 13: 9780679437666

Published by Knopf, New York, 1995

About this Item

NY: Knopf, 1995. First American Edition. First printing. New in dust jacket. Unread, pristine copy. Novel, a gothic fable and allegory of spiritual damnation, follows an outcast youth known as Daupus, meaning death, who will ride the pale horse foretold in Revelations, reinvesting the word öevilö with fuller meaning. Hardbound 196 pages. Illustrations by David Jackson. New in dust jacket. A perfect unread copy of the South African author's third novel. SALE.F3600.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Horseman (Mint First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679437665
• ISBN 13: 9780679437666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

A gothic fable profiles the young Daupus, the man foretold in Revelation to be a figure of death on a pale horse, and describes his dark contract with a hooded monk, and his imprisonment in a catacomb

From the Inside Flap

and terrifying novel presenting a mythical account of the development of evil through the history of Southern Africa."--Seattle Times. This ferocious new novel by one of South Africa's visionary writers is a post-colonial reimagining of the Book of Revelation--an unholy epic that reenvisions the catastrophic violence of European "civilization" as a hooded rider who spreads slaughter across the African continent--a work that is as unnerving as it is intellectually provocative.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>