The Blaze of Noon

by Rayner Heppenstall and Elizabeth (Preface) HEPPENSTALL, Rayner (Author);BOWEN

Book Overview

This is a story told in the first person by a blind man. His name is Louis Dunkel, and he is a masseur. The scene is Cornwall, where he is staying at the house of a patient, Mrs. Nance, whose niece, Sophie, falls in love with him. Their affair, momentarily broken by the strange intrusion of the far more seriously afflicted Amity Nance, is recounted in a prose of great delicacy and precision. The Blaze of Noon' was written in 1938 and first published...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802311466
• ISBN13: 9780802311467
• Release Date: December 1968
• Publisher: Dufour Editions
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.