An Intimate Knowledge of the Night

By Terry Dowling

The Wonder and the Terror.... When an author sits downto write the linking pieces for the stories in his new book, planning to do it by the hours of the night observed by medieval scholars, he is interrupted by phonecalls from his eccentric yet harmless friend, Raymond, a former mental patient with whom he shares some curious notions about the perceived world. At first casual and interested, even helpful, these calls soon become increasingly tense and strange, until the author realizes that what started out as an innocent, fun idea - a shared all-night vigil on the autumn Equinox - is actually serving some other vital purpose, becoming by stages part therapy, part incantatory progress, part vindication of those very theories which will change forever the way he sees the world. Terry Dowling's marvellous new book is about rapture, fear, the secret, darkest mysteries of the world and the human spirit. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1875346155
• ISBN13: 9781875346158
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Aphelion Publications (AU)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.