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The Fountain of Youth
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781628976519
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Strange things are happening in a small Australian town as the local theatre troupe prepares for their next performance. The Fountain of Youth is another riotous and rollicking novel from John Kinsella, and the third volume of his ongoing 'Lucida' cycle.
In the small wheat-belt towns of Western Australia, the locals are either benign or malicious, prophets or schemers, indifferent or intrusive. Among their ranks are vegan activists, paramilitary sects, doomsday preppers, thespians, playwrights, and of course, the odd extraterrestrial. These unlikely neighbors intersect at the straining joints of religion, faith, secularism, technology, and the pressure is starting to build.
The Fountain of Youth is a rare and remarkable book in which guerrilla environmentalists, hidden identities, mythological origins, and theoretical physics unfold in gorgeous, surreal waves of language.
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