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The Isle of Kheria

Robert Cabot

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Description:Obsessed, crazed with grief at the loss of his wife, Joel, now living a reclusive life in a farm commune in Canada, learns of the death of his dearest friend, Aidan. He is compelled to journey to an island in Greece, Khería, where Aidan had swum off into a storm and drowned. Joel’s is a pilgrimage, seeking answers to doubts and guilt about their friendship and the motivations and circumstances of the death, seeking release from grief in atonement and resolution.The novel traces the lives of the two men in Homeric journeys conducted largely in Joel’s dream-world conversations with spirit visitations from his past. Over all is the presence of a foreboding inaccessible rock of an islet, Khímaera, Aidan’s destination when he drowned—a fateful mythic monster, a chimeric illusion. The extraordinary, intertwined, sometimes ambiguous lives of these two men are compelling stories, spanning much of the twentieth century: childhoods in England and New England; frontline soldiers in World War II; Greece with its civil war, its cruelties, its beauty, its crass materialism; brief years in US government service; rebellious, seeking alternative lives in Italy, England, in the US and Canada, in Greece; lives of tragic loves—and, in the end, of profound reward.Fateful, Odyssean stories, their resolutions evolve from a despairing elegiac dream-world into hopeful reality. Stories told in haunting, poetic prose, a unique style acclaimed in Cabot’s earlier novels.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Isle of Kheria. To get started finding The Isle of Kheria, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 320

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: McPherson & Company

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0929701984

Description: Obsessed, crazed with grief at the loss of his wife, Joel, now living a reclusive life in a farm commune in Canada, learns of the death of his dearest friend, Aidan. He is compelled to journey to an island in Greece, Khería, where Aidan had swum off into a storm and drowned. Joel’s is a pilgrimage, seeking answers to doubts and guilt about their friendship and the motivations and circumstances of the death, seeking release from grief in atonement and resolution.The novel traces the lives of the two men in Homeric journeys conducted largely in Joel’s dream-world conversations with spirit visitations from his past. Over all is the presence of a foreboding inaccessible rock of an islet, Khímaera, Aidan’s destination when he drowned—a fateful mythic monster, a chimeric illusion. The extraordinary, intertwined, sometimes ambiguous lives of these two men are compelling stories, spanning much of the twentieth century: childhoods in England and New England; frontline soldiers in World War II; Greece with its civil war, its cruelties, its beauty, its crass materialism; brief years in US government service; rebellious, seeking alternative lives in Italy, England, in the US and Canada, in Greece; lives of tragic loves—and, in the end, of profound reward.Fateful, Odyssean stories, their resolutions evolve from a despairing elegiac dream-world into hopeful reality. Stories told in haunting, poetic prose, a unique style acclaimed in Cabot’s earlier novels.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Isle of Kheria. To get started finding The Isle of Kheria, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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