Skip to content

In Zodiac Light
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

In Zodiac Light Hardcover - 2008

by Edric, Robert

  • Used

Description

Transworld Publishers Limited. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Used - Good
NZ$20.21
FREE Shipping to USA Standard delivery: 4 to 8 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Better World Books (Indiana, United States)
The BIBLIO Guarantee | Ask Seller a Question

Details

  • Title In Zodiac Light
  • Author Edric, Robert
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Transworld Publishers Limited, London
  • Date 2008-09-16
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 42530856-6
  • ISBN 9780385612586 / 0385612583
  • Library of Congress subjects Biographical fiction, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008431806
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

About Better World Books Indiana, United States

Biblio member since 2005
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Better World Books is the world's leading socially conscious online bookseller and has sold over 100 million books. Each sale generates funds for global literacy and education initiatives. We offer low prices, fast shipping, and have a 100% money back guarantee, if you are not completely satisfied.

Terms of Sale:

Better World Books wants every single one of its customers to be happy with their purchase. If you are not satisfied your purchase or simply find out that it was not the book you were looking for, please e-mail us at: help@betterworldbooks.com. We will get back to you as soon as possible with directions on how to return the book to our warehouse. Please keep in mind that because we deal mostly in used books, any extra components, such as CDs or access codes, are usually not included. CDs: If the book does include a CD, it will be noted in the book's description ("With CD!"). Otherwise, there is no CD included, even if the term is used in the book's title. Access Codes: Unless the book is described as "New," please assume that the book does *not* have an access code.

Browse books from Better World Books

Summary

The new novel from one of the UK's finest literary writers.It is December 1922 and the aftershocks of the First World War continue to make themselves felt. Ex-soldier, poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, suffering from increasingly frequent and deepening bouts of paranoid schizophrenia is transferred to the City of London Mental Hospital, Dartford.Neglected by the military and by his own family, and abandoned by all but a notable handful of his friends, Gurney begins a descent into the madness and oblivion which he believes has long been waiting to claim him.Yet following his arrival at Dartford, there are still those who continue to believe in Gurney's capabilities – in his 'wayward genius'. For a brief period, it seems that he might find some calm and ease in his life, and thus achieve the status so many consider him capable of achieving.But few of those now responsible for Gurney realise the consequences of their hopefulness. They have no real idea of what he had endured on the Western Front during almost three years of military service and the effects it had on his mind. Ultimately it is not the war but the refusal of his admirers to acknowledge the trauma of his experience that will take him further from a creative rebirth and closer to the edge of sanity that he both craves and fears...

From the publisher

Robert Edric’s novels include The Book of the Heathen; Peacetime; Gathering the Water and The Kingdom of Ashes.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Categories

Media reviews

Praise for Robert Edric:
“Edric’s work constitutes one of the most astonishing bodies of work to have appeared from a single author for a generation.”–Daily Telegraph

“Has a seriousness and a psychological edge that nine out of ten novelists would give their eye teeth to possess.”–Sunday Times


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.