The Fisher King

by Anthony Powell

Book Overview

Aboard the "Alecto," prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious Arthurian legends, the Fisher King--the maimed and impotent ruler of a barren country of whom Perceval...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039302363X
• ISBN13: 9780393023633
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.