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 Author Name: Cowper, Richard
Title: A Dream Of Kinship.
Book Condition: Ink library stamps on page edges and several internal pages, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. 1981.
ISBN Number: 0575029692 / 9780575029699
Seller ID: 00258
Second book of the White Bird of Kinship trilogy, preceded by The Road To Cowlay (1978), and followed by A Tapestry Of Time (1982).
''he remains best known for his Corlay trilogy - The Road To Corlay (1978), A DREAM OF KINSHIP (1981) and A Tapestry of Time (1982) - in which what might be called the pathos of expectancy typical of his best work is finally resolved, for the essential parts of the sequence take place in an England 1000 years after changing sea-levels have inundated much low-lying country, creating an archipelago-like venue which hearkens -- perhaps consciously -- back to Richard Jefferies' After London, or Wild England (1885), In this land, an oppressive theocracy is threatened by the solace offered through a young lad's redemptive visions of a new faith, whose emblem is the White Bird of Kinship. The sequence proceeds through the establishment of a new church, its stiffening into its own repressive rituals, and its rebirth. Throughout, a sweet serenity of image and storytelling instinct -- the author has always been a gripping teller of tales -- transfigure conventional plot-patterns into testament. The Corlay books so clearly sum up the author's imaginative sense of a redeemed England that it is perhaps unsurprising that he has written relatively little since'' (Peter Nicholls & John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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