Alembic

by Timothy D'Arch Smith

Alembic is an unsettling novel about madness and alchemy, epistemology and rock and roll, magic and perversion. Thomas Graves, a young antiquarian, works for ALEMBIC, a British government office investigating the contemporary applications of the secrets of alchemy. The strange world of alchemy, however, is as eerie as the rock and roll world of Thomas's friend Nicholas Spark, leader of a Led Zeppelin-like band called Celestial Praylin. Moving between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564780090
• ISBN13: 9781564780096
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"