Ness

aw_product_id: 
27550802553
merchant_image_url: 
https://cdn.waterstones.com/bookjackets/large/9780/2419/9780241986370.jpg
merchant_category: 
Books
search_price: 
9.99
book_author_name: 
Robert Macfarlane
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Penguin Books Ltd
published_date: 
22/04/2021
isbn: 
9780241986370
Merchant Product Cat path: 
Books > Fiction > Myths & legends
specifications: 
Robert Macfarlane|Paperback|Penguin Books Ltd|22/04/2021
Merchant Product Id: 
9780241986370
Book Description: 
Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb - it is an aftertime song. It is dark, ever so dark, nimble and lethal. It is a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age. Ness is something else, and feels like it always has been' Max Porter, author of LannySomewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him.Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving towards the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect.
Custom Categories: 

Graphic Design by Ishmael Annobil /  Web Development by Ruzanna Hovasapyan