The affirmation
Priest, Christopher, 1943-2011
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Peter's father has just died, his mistress has left him, he has lost both his job and his apartment. He arranges to stay in a friend's cottage and work on his autobiography, but soon begins to drift between the shadowy world of memory and imagination. Christopher Priest is the Arthur C. Clarke Award and World Fantasy Award-winning author of THE SEPARATION, THE GLAMOUR, THE DREAM ARCHIPELAGO and THE PRESTIGE, which was filmed by Christopher Nolan and starred Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. THE AFFIRMATION is his compulsive and original novel of an autobiography that isn't - partly a thriller, partly a haunting study of schizophrenia, it is the mark of one of Britain's finest novelists at the very height of his powers. Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further in ...
Main title:
The affirmation / Christopher Priest.
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Imprint:
London : Gollancz, 2011.
Collation:
viii, 247 p. ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: London: Faber, 1981.
ISBN:
9780575099463 (pbk)9780575114999 (ebook)
Dewey class:
823.914GEN
LC class:
PR6066.R55
Language:
English
BRN:
295229