Song of the Sea God
Along with the strange flotsam of the sea, the aptly named John Love drifts in on the grey tide to grace a remote island off the English coast. The stranger, both bedazzling and unnerving, effects an immediate messianic glow upon the bladder-wracked community of odds and sods, making disciples of the most unlikely characters. Chris Hill's visionary and delightfully bizarre novel reads like the gospel for a neophyte religion spawning in the sea foam among strange goings-on. It examines how destiny is the result of the collective will, especially among tribal folk who forever yearn to conform to ancient cants and creeds. Song of the Sea God com…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-908011-55-8
- EAN: 9781908011558
- Produktnummer: 14028960
- Verlag: Skylight Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 214 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.2 cm 292 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 292
Über den Autor
Chris Hill has lived with his family in Gloucester for 17 years and spent many years working for Gloucestershire Media, first as News Editor of the Citizen and later as Editor of the weekly News Series. He is already established as a short story writer, winning one of Britain's biggest story awards, The Bridport Prize. Song of the Sea God, his first full-length novel, has already been shortlisted for two national awards including the Daily Telegraph Novel in a Year prize.
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