Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions posed by David Keenans masterly fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer and a descent, into history, into the horrors of the past a novel with a sweep and range that runs from the siege of Khartoum and the conquest of Africa in the 19th century through the Second World War and up to the present day, where the memory of a single summer, and a love affair that took place across the cathedrals of Ile de France, unravels, as a secret initiatory cult is uncovered that has its roots in macabre experiments in cryptozoology in prewar Europe. MONUMENT MAKER straddles genres while fully embracing none of them, a book within a book within a book that runs from hallucinatory historical epics through futurevisioned histories of the world narrated by a horribly disfigured British soldier made prophetic by depths of suffering books that interact with Keenans earlier novels, including a return to the mythical postpunk Airdrie landscape of his now classic debut, THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE whole histories of art and religion books that are glorious choral appendices bibliographies imagined films tape recorded interviews building to a jubilant accumulation of registers, voices and rhythms that is truly Choral. Written over the course of 10 years, MONUMENT MAKER represents...

Binding: Paperback;816 pages; Publisher: Orion Publishing Co; Classification: FA; Weight: 706 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 47

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