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Children of Darkness and Light Paperback / softback - 1997
by Nicholas Mosley
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Details
- Title Children of Darkness and Light
- Author Nicholas Mosley
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
- Date 1997-07-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9781564781512
- ISBN 9781564781512 / 1564781518
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Religious fiction, Journalists - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96051797
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
In Children of Darkness and Light, Mosley takes on what for most novelists has been the most challenging of subjects: a novel directly concerned with religious belief. A middle-aged, burnt-out journalist is sent to the north of England to do a story about the possible appearance of the Blessed Virgin to a group of children, though this may be a rumor initiated by the government to cover up a nuclear disaster. Or both. Out of such conflicting possibilities, Mosley invents a sinister world where nothing is what it seems to be. And as Mosley's narrator moves through the possibilities of half-truths, lies, conspiracies, and betrayals, he himself creates a parallel crisis in his personal life wherein he and his wife are trying to destroy their marriage or save it, or - as we come to expect in Mosley novels - do both at once. And behind all this is the possibility that the narrator - half philosopher and half would-be saint - is little more than a middle-aged man trying to justify his irresponsibility and infidelity behind a shield of wit and irony.
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Citations
- Booklist, 07/01/1997, Page 1799
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/1997, Page 828
- Library Journal, 06/01/1997, Page 150
- Publishers Weekly, 07/21/1997, Page 185