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Into That Darkness

Steven Price

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Description:Acclaimed Canadian poet Steven Price has conjured a stunning debut novel that explores what we ask from each other, and how much we are prepared to give.Set in the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Into That Darkness opens at the moment when a massive earthquake hits the entire west coast with devastating results. Amid the destruction of the city, survivors are left to negotiate a calamity in which bonds of civility are pushed to their limits and often broken.When Arthur Lear hears a voice crying in the rubble, he finds himself descending deep under a collapsed building in a desperate attempt to save a young boy and his mother. But what he discovers there will change him forever as circumstances lead him across the city s broken landscape, through the chaos of its hospitals and streets, in a harrowing search for the mother s lost daughter. Over the days that follow, Lear s very sense of humanness will be tested and compromised, as he faces the limits of himself and his fellow survivors, in his long journey home.A novel for our age of anxiety and fear, Steven Price delivers a powerful story about the physical manifestation of the darker things lurking in our culture, in ourselves."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Into That Darkness. To get started finding Into That Darkness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 273

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers

Release: 2011

ISBN: 0887627374

Description: Acclaimed Canadian poet Steven Price has conjured a stunning debut novel that explores what we ask from each other, and how much we are prepared to give.Set in the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Into That Darkness opens at the moment when a massive earthquake hits the entire west coast with devastating results. Amid the destruction of the city, survivors are left to negotiate a calamity in which bonds of civility are pushed to their limits and often broken.When Arthur Lear hears a voice crying in the rubble, he finds himself descending deep under a collapsed building in a desperate attempt to save a young boy and his mother. But what he discovers there will change him forever as circumstances lead him across the city s broken landscape, through the chaos of its hospitals and streets, in a harrowing search for the mother s lost daughter. Over the days that follow, Lear s very sense of humanness will be tested and compromised, as he faces the limits of himself and his fellow survivors, in his long journey home.A novel for our age of anxiety and fear, Steven Price delivers a powerful story about the physical manifestation of the darker things lurking in our culture, in ourselves."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Into That Darkness. To get started finding Into That Darkness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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