BLIND SWIMMER Hardback

David RIX (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0956214762 / ISBN 13: 9780956214768

Published by Eibonvale Press, 2010

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A first UK edition hardback with a stated published August 2010. Unread. Bought new at publication and stored carefully ever since. Some light tanning to pages. The dust jacket is complete and has been protected with a sleeve. An anthology of Eibonvale Press Writers edited by David Rix. SYNOPSIS: "Eibonvale Press came into being in 2005 and this book is a chance to look back a bit and define Eibonvale Press as an entity. Blind Swimmer collects together 11 stories, most never before published, by writers who have made up or will soon make up the Eibonvale Press family. in Isolation was the theme set, and the results are as varied as the writers themselves. The stories are: Foreword by Joel Lane; Introduction by David Rix; Bellony - Nina Allan; The Flea Market - Gerard Houarner; The Talkative Star - Rhys Hughes; The Man who Saw Grey - Brendan Connell; The Book of Tides - David Rix; Flights of Fancy - Allen Ashley; Pigs Eyes - Jet McDonald; The Flowers of Uncertainty - Douglas Thompson; The Higgins Technique - Terry Grimwood; Far Beneath Incomplete Constellation - Alexander Zelenyj; Lussi Natt - Andrew Coulthard; Author biographies. Packed weight 840gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BLIND SWIMMER Hardback
• Publisher: Eibonvale Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0956214762
• ISBN 13: 9780956214768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

In the city of Sylvow, brother and sister Claudia and Leo Vestra made a childhood promise to each other: he would look after the plants and she would look after the animals. Unlike most promises, both of these were kept - each in their own way. Claudia is now a vet - looking after pampered pets or putting down strays and leading a mundane life in the city. Leo, on the other hand, disenchanted with modern urban life, has abruptly abandoned his wife and disappeared into the surrounding forest, his only contact with the outside world being a sequence of dramatic and prophetic letters - increasingly convinced that a semi-sentient natural world is preparing to rebel against its human irritants. Nature is a strange thing - although we have done an amazing job of cataloguing and observing it, we still know very little about it. Nature always surprises - and always changes, especially under an external influence such as humanity's devastating effect on the environment. This book follows its cast of characters through a spectacular clash between everyday life and life on the evolutionary scale - as society dissolves and is stripped away under the onslaught of surreal environmental disaster. Douglas Thompson has dug deep into the inevitable guilt that we all feel, as a culture/species, for the disastrous state of civilization and its effect on both ourselves and the world around us - in the process touching on elements as diverse as literary surrealism, philosophical tract, horror, disaster novel and visionary science fiction.