The Bridge of Lost Desire

Delany, Samuel R

ISBN 10: 0877959315 / ISBN 13: 9780877959311

Published by Arbor House, New York, 1987

About this Item

Dust jacket art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Recurring themes in Delany's work include mythology, memory, language, sexuality, and perception. Class, position in society, and the ability to move from one social stratum to another are motifs that were touched on in his earlier work and became more significant in both his later fiction and non-fiction. Many of Delany's later (mid-1980s and beyond) works have bodies of water (mostly oceans and rivers) as a common theme, as mentioned by Delany in The Polymath. Though not a theme, coffee, more than any other beverage, is mentioned significantly and often in many of Delany's fictions. Writing itself (both prose and poetry) is also a repeated theme: several of his characters Geo in The Jewels of Aptor, Vol Nonik in The Fall of the Towers, Rydra Wong in Babel-17, Ni Ty Lee in Empire Star, Katin Crawford in Nova, the Kid, Ernest Newboy, and William in Dhalgren, Arnold Hawley in Dark Reflections, John Marr and Timothy Hasler in The Mad Man, and Osudh in Phallos are writers or poets of some sort. " (from Wikipedia).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bridge of Lost Desire
• Publisher: Arbor House, New York
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877959315
• ISBN 13: 9780877959311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Ned Dameron
• Edition: 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

After freeing the slaves of his land, Gorgik the Liberator, Minister to the Empress in the prehistoric Neveryon Empire, relates the story of his adventures to a young barbarian in this conclusion to the "Neveryon" series

Reviews

In Neveryon, slavery is nonexistent, and three long tales explore the life of the legendary manGorgik the Liberatorresponsible for freeing the empire's slaves. Seen through his own eyes ("The Game of Time and Pain"), Gorgik is a man still caught in his past. To others, however, he is a shadow on the horizon of their lives ("The Tale of Rumor and Desire") or else a collection of facts ("The Tale of Gorgik"). Delany's artistry as both writer and storyteller rises to the surface in his latest addition to the Neveryon cycle. Recommended.
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