The Great Chain of Unbeing

Crumey, Andrew (2018) The Great Chain of Unbeing. Dedalus, Sawtry. ISBN 9781910213773, 9781910213872

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Abstract

Here we find a blind man contemplating the light of an atom bomb, a musician disturbed by a conspiracy of radio waves, a visitor to Moscow caught up in a comic case of mistaken identity, a woman on a Greek island trying to become a different person. We range across time, from the Renaissance to a globally-warmed future, across light-years in search of hallucinogenic space-plankton, and into magical worlds of talking insects and bottled fire. Fans of Crumey’s acclaimed novels will occasionally spot hints of themes and figures that have recurred throughout his fiction; readers new to his work will delight in finding subtle links within the pieces. Are they all part of some larger untold story? We have nothing to lose but the chains of our imagination: what lies beyond is a great change of being.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	W800 Imaginative Writing
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Depositing User:	Andrew Crumey
Date Deposited:	17 Nov 2017 12:52
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2019 15:42
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/32541

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