Vorrh

Zusatztext When even the warts of a novel are winning! it's hard to misunderstand that you have something special on your hands ! and The Vorrh is absolutely that. Equal parts dark fantasy and surrealist dream ! it is inescapably dense! and unrelentingly intense. Shelve it shoulder to shoulder with 2012s other most notable novels! be they of the genre or not! then consider carefully which stands lacking in comparison. Informationen zum Autor Brian Catling (born in London! 1948) is an English sculptor! poet! novelist! film maker and performance artist.He was educated at North East London Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. He now holds the post of Professor of Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art! Oxford and is a fellow of Linacre College. He has been exhibiting his work internationally since the 1970s. Some of his most notable works and performances include: Quill Two at Matt's Gallery! Dilston Grove in 2011! Antix at Matt's Gallery in 2006! a commissoned memorial to the Site of Execution! Tower of London in 2007! Vanished! A Video Seance made with screenwriter Tony Grisoni in 1999 and Cyclops at South London Gallery 1996. In 2001 he co founded the international performance collective WiTW. As a writer he has published poetic works! including one compendium A Court of Miracles in 2009. His first prose book Bobby Awl was published in 2007. Klappentext The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death! Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality! he portrays - with characteristic wit and passion-a man of multiple contradictions! contagious bravery! breath-taking eloquence! matchless strategizing! and deep humanity. Fearless on the battlefield! Churchill had to be ordered by the King to stay out of action on D-Day; he pioneered aerial bombing! yet hated the destruction of war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. He was a celebrated journalist! a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was famous for his ability to combine wining and dining with many late nights of crucial wartime decision-making. His open-mindedness made him a pioneer in health care! education! and social welfare! though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect. Most of all! as Boris Johnson says! 'Churchill is the resounding human rebuttal to all who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces'. THE CHURCHILL FACTOR is a book to be enjoyed not only by anyone interested in history: it is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what makes a great leader. Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of the Vorrh. Zusammenfassung In B. Catling's twisting! poetic narrative! Bakelite robots lie broken - their hard shells cracked by human desire - and an inquisitive Cyclops waits for his keeper and guardian! growing in all directions. Beyond the colonial city of Essenwald lies the Vorrh! the forest which sucks souls and wipes minds. There! a writer heads out on a giddy mission to experience otherness! fallen angels observe humanity from afar! and two hunters - one carrying a bow carved from his lover! the other a charmed Lee-Enfield rifle - fight to the end. Thousands of miles away! famed photographer Eadweard Muybridge attempts to capture the ultimate truth! as rifle heiress Sarah Winchester erects a house to protect her from the spirits of her gun's victims. In the tradition of China Miéville! Michael Moorcock and Alasdair Gray! B. Catling's The Vorrh is literary dark fantasy which wilfully ignores boundaries! crossing ove...

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In Brian Catling's phosphorescent masterpiece The Vorrh we have one of the most original and stunning works of fantasy that has ever been my privilege to read, a brilliant and sustained piece of invention which establishes a benchmark not just for imaginative writing but for the human imagination in itself. After investigating other worlds of fantasy, The Vorrh is like a first experience of the ocean. Read this book, and marvel. Alan Moore

Product details

• Authors: Brian Catling
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9781473606623
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-0662-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Coronet; Vorrh Trilogy; Vorrh Trilogy
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy