Feather: Tales of Isolation and Descent - Hardcover

Rix, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908125063 ISBN 13: 9781908125064

Publisher: Eibonvale Press, 2011

Synopsis

Who is Feather? The wandering girl - the running girl. Fragmentary, oblique, a damaged product of innocence lost, on the run from a deprived childhood and eccentric domineering father. Passing from remote beaches and salt marshes covered with samphire and grey sky to more human wildernesses in London and Ljubljana - always on the move and always making encounters. Always touching people with her own magic. Always unable to engage emotionally with all the lives she passes through - hurt, maybe, but always just moving on. In these nine stories and novellas, David Rix weaves an enigmatic web of fictions at the shifting intersections of Slipstream, Horror and Science Fiction. Feather lurks at the edges of some of these tales and erupts from the centre of others, but her presence and personality haunt them all, like an eerie melody played on an underwater violin. Perhaps Feather is a symbol of something fundamentally human, an avatar for the collision of our common humanity with the insanely alien environment of the modern world. But ultimately, Feather is also the muse of David Rix himself, and in sharing her with him, you will come to savour the very act of questioning, and discover that strange world where mystery and innocence meet what we see as normal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eibonvale Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908125063
• ISBN 13: 9781908125064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380