The Lightning Cage

by Alan Wall

In the tradition of Graham Swift and Patrick McGrath---Alan Wall's The Lightning Cage is a gothic, metaphysical novel given the speed and strength of a thriller. A former seminarian, Christopher Bayliss abandons his studies in Rome and returns to England determined to be cleansed forever of the contagion of religion and to leave behind his angels as well as his demons. But then something curious starts to happen: his research into an obscure eighteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312287720
• ISBN13: 9780312287726
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"