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The World
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $12.95
ISBN13: 9780595276622
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: May 6 2003
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
Saturated with what he has learned of Classics and history, a 16-year-old boy reflects upon the flow of recent events in his own history: his discovering his Irish heritage, his loss of a job, his receiving an Artistic vocation, his traumatic experiences of unrequited love. These events become psychic cataclysms that destroy his traditional worldview and force him to create a new one. They also teach him what it means to become an Artist and a man.
Exploiting imagery ranging from Greek mythology to video games and employing conventional and experimental techniques, The World is a passionate, multi-layered, poetic depiction of an artistic soul's maturation. Twenty years in the writing, The World is a work that should be read again and again.
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