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A Glastonbury Romance (Paperback)

by John Cowper Powys (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 1120 pages
  • Publisher: Overlook Press; New edition edition (24 Jun 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 087951681X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0879516819
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 5.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 358,263 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A novel in which the legends of Glastonbury exert a supernatural influence on the town, on the religious revival, on the workers and on the complex loves of its inhabitants. From the author of WEYMOUTH and WOLF SOLENT.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A maze of different believes more up to date than ever, 2 Aug 2002
By R. Sindelar "ricksets" (Atlantis) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Glastonbury Romance (Paperback)
25 years ago I bought this book, more on account of the beautiful cover than on the content, and on the somewhat cryptic summary that this would be the Lord of the Rings for a new generation. As noticed by others it was difficult to get through the first pages and I laid aside my brand new edition for a while - 25 years. After some maturation I've picked it up again this year and I'm surprised how complex and intriguing this Fellowship of Glastonbury inhabitants actually is. A mixture of pagan, druidic, christian and arthurian believes with a large portion of greek mythology and the most complex of mental states, namely being in love, makes this book a stunning adventure and more up to date in a world that contemplates these issues more intensly than ever. It's also fascinating that all these thoughts were concentrated in the mind of one writer and that this mind could focus them within the environment of some old ruins coming to life through these eternal questions that his characters are possesed by. Through the increasing strength of TV-satellites and IT websites many of these different and dispersed believes of our world come together today, but they will not get a much better setting than the one of John Cowper Powys' Glastonbury. Highly recommended!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Majestic lunacy, 19 Mar 2002
In some ways this is the most amazing novel I have ever encountered. Its imaginative range, its gorgeous language, and its mesmeric power lift it far above almost anything else. Some of the characters and images - Geard, the mayor and founder of a new religion; Evans, the tortured antiquary; the haunting vision of the Grail-Aquarium; and the invisible naturalists studying the town's population all come to mind - are unforgettably original. The book is by turns sinister, astonishing, mystical and comic. Think of a kind of Dickens meets Hardy meets Lawrence meets Blake, and you'll have some idea of what to expect.

The last two names point also, unfortunately, to the book's flaws. Like Lawrence, Powys can be embarrassingly gushing, and like Blake he can bore or bewilder when he isn't firing on all cylinders. His mystical flights occasionally spill over into bathos! and his style moves from the sublime to the downright infuriating! In particular, I really wish he had vowed never to use another exclamation mark before beginning this book! More broadly, the text is very long indeed and needs some determination in places.

But these are trivial complaints. Powys is a truly unique writer in the whole history of English literature, and his intricate, minutely-detailed yet cosmic vision is one you'll never forget. Not light reading, but the rewards along the way dwarf those of most other twentieth-century works.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Unique, 1 May 2003
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Powys must be one of the strangest authors ever to have written in the English language. Like Dickens, he revels in character, but unlike Dickens, his baroque, time-slowed flights of literary fancy occasionaly take us into the thoughts of a passing insect or nearby tree — even into the ‘superhuman vibrations’ of ‘the soul of the great blazing sun’. But what is strangest of all is that this is not in any way affected. I’m convinced Powys did experienece the world in this way — everything connected, conscious and alive. As to what actually happens in the book, I can’t remember! But it’s far less important anyway than the strange intensity with which his characters live their everyday lives.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Written from a very unusual perspective
'A Glastonbury Romance' is set in inter-war Britain. It follows the lives of the inhabitants of Glastonbury over the course of a few eventful years in that town's history, and... Read more
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In some ways this is the most amazing novel I have ever encountered. Its imaginative range, its gorgeous language, and its mesmeric power lift it far above almost anything else... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Prose that lifts you into a sensuous world!
In 'A Glastonbury Romance' John Cowper Powys has given us one of England's greatest epic novels. Examining how a pagan myth that has become overlaid with Christian symbolism... Read more
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