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The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen's first novel, more than forty years after its original appearance in 1963. MacEwen described what she set out to achieve as a sort of powerful poetic mad half-abandoned prose somewhere between [Kenneth] Patchen and Virginia Woolf. Set in a medieval past that has distinctly modern overtones, the novel is about Julian, a young man who believes he is Christ. Wandering the countryside in a horse-drawn wagon, Julian learns to suspend logic like a whale on a thread. changing water into wine. When his rapt audiences begins to lose faith, Julian must pay with his life. MacEwen skilfully implies a relationship between alchemy, miracles and belief, and the art forms she is engaged in herself, poetry and prose. What is the price the writer-magician must pay to engender belief in her audience? Is something true merely because we believe in it? The book includes an Afterword by the author's sister.
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Gwendolyn MacEwen was born in Toronto in 1941. The author of numerous books of award-winning poetry, including A Breakfast for Barbarians, The Shadow-Maker and The T.E. Lawrence Poems, she also published novels, plays, travel memoirs and children's books. MacEwen died in 1987.
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- PublisherInsomniac Pr
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1894663578
- ISBN 13 9781894663571
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages170
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