- Hardcover: 198 pages
- Publisher: Quartet Books (31 July 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0704371340
- ISBN-13: 978-0704371347
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,127,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Intellectually engaging and deeply moving, Sylvie's Riddle explores the connection between the images we construct and the way we make sense of our world. Its subtle brew of invention, compassion and wit make it a wonderfully inventive novel of ideas. It is Alan Wall's finest novel yet.' - Andrew Hitchcock
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Sylvie Ashton spends her life pursuing images. In her work at the Signum Institute in Liverpool she stares for hours at images of stars, like the Beatles or Bob Dylan, or the sort provided by the Hubble Telescope. She is trying to understand the way we fashion the world through our lenses, and how the images we create become so embedded in our lives that we can no longer escape them.
Sylvie's husband, Owen, writes scripts for films. One of these, in its pursuit of the potent image, creates mayhem. Will he ever make sense of the human wreckage he has left strewn behind him? And will she? However luminous the stars are, however brightly they shine, it sometimes seems as if we are still painting monsters on cave walls. And such images can lead to torment as well as enlightenment...
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