Climbers
With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Seiten
2022
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-4746-2492-3 (ISBN)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-4746-2492-3 (ISBN)
The beloved cult classic from the winner of the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize: a novel of life-changing moments, incredible descriptions of landscape and the power of an obsession.
'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing
'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert Macfarlane
'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern landscape' Benjamin Myers
Retreating from the ruins of his marriage, Mike leaves London for the wildness of the Yorkshire moors, where he falls in with a group of climbers - a band of misfits and mavericks bound by the pursuit of the unattainable: the perfect climb.
Travelling from abandoned urban quarries to misty, lichened crags, Mike discovers an intensity of experience - a wash of pain, fear and excitement - that causes the rest of his world to recede. Increasingly addicted to the adrenaline, folklore and camaraderie of the sport, he begins to lose his grip on the line between passion and obsession - at a cost.
With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing
'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert Macfarlane
'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern landscape' Benjamin Myers
Retreating from the ruins of his marriage, Mike leaves London for the wildness of the Yorkshire moors, where he falls in with a group of climbers - a band of misfits and mavericks bound by the pursuit of the unattainable: the perfect climb.
Travelling from abandoned urban quarries to misty, lichened crags, Mike discovers an intensity of experience - a wash of pain, fear and excitement - that causes the rest of his world to recede. Increasingly addicted to the adrenaline, folklore and camaraderie of the sport, he begins to lose his grip on the line between passion and obsession - at a cost.
With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Michael John Harrison is the author of, amongst others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, Signs of Life, Light and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Award (Climbers), the James Tiptree Jr Award (Light), the Goldsmiths Prize (The Sunken Lane Begins to Rise Again) and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Nova Swing). He lives in Shropshire.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.05.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | W&N Essentials |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 128 x 192 mm |
| Gewicht | 232 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4746-2492-8 / 1474624928 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4746-2492-3 / 9781474624923 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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