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The chymical wedding / Lindsay Clarke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1989Edition: 1st American edDescription: 536 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0394579372 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 20
LOC classification:
  • PR6053.L3295 C47 1989
Contents:
1 The Green Man. 2 The figure in the stone. 3 The house of God. 4 A disagreement at the rectory. 5 In dreams. 6 Approaches. 7 The lady's name. 8 A season of ice. 9 The firing. 10 Symbolic and diabolic. 11 Meeting. 12 The hanged man. 13 The keepers of the keys. 14 The gesture of the secret
Summary: 'Like a master of alchemy--the ancient occult science that forms the vital core of The Chymical Wedding--Lindsay Clarke creates in this extraordinary novel a luminous amalgam of raw elements: passion, obsession, and mystery. In two tales of six people--three in the past, three in the present--whose lives are separated by more than a century, but whose fates reach across time toward each other, and toward certain collision.'
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"Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, Ltd, London"--T.p. verso.

P. 535, Acknowledgements: Jung, Esther Harding, Klossowski de Rola, and Mary Anne Atwood are mentioned as influences in the writing of the novel.

1 The Green Man. 2 The figure in the stone. 3 The house of God. 4 A disagreement at the rectory. 5 In dreams. 6 Approaches. 7 The lady's name. 8 A season of ice. 9 The firing. 10 Symbolic and diabolic. 11 Meeting. 12 The hanged man. 13 The keepers of the keys. 14 The gesture of the secret

'Like a master of alchemy--the ancient occult science that forms the vital core of The Chymical Wedding--Lindsay Clarke creates in this extraordinary novel a luminous amalgam of raw elements: passion, obsession, and mystery. In two tales of six people--three in the past, three in the present--whose lives are separated by more than a century, but whose fates reach across time toward each other, and toward certain collision.'

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